Quotes By Ella Maillart

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

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

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

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

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

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

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

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.