50 Quotes by Ella Maillart

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

When I started travelling, I was 18; I was instinctively obeying a strong urge. Today I can analyse that urge and see where it has led me.

No sooner had I left to cruise the Mediterranean than the following question preoccupied me: How far does one kill a journey by making it become real?

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.