38 Quotes by Isabelle Eberhardt

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I’m happy.

For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life.

While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one’s entire outlook.

No prayers, no medicines, merely the ineffable happiness of dying.

One must use the weapons one finds in one’s path.

Never give your soul to a creature, because it belongs to God alone; see in all creatures a motive for rejoicing, in homage to the Creator; never seek yourself in another, but discover yourself in yourself.

Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty.