Quotes By Ella Maillart

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

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

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.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

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.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

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