Top 39 Quotes by Ella Maillart

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

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

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

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.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.