50 Quotes by Ella Maillart

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.