Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
- Ella Maillart Quote

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
- Ella Maillart Quote

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
- Ella Maillart Quote

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

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.
- Ella Maillart Quote

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
- Ella Maillart Quote

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
- Ella Maillart Quote

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.
- Ella Maillart Quote

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

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
- Ella Maillart Quote

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
- Ella Maillart Quote

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.
- Ella Maillart Quote

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
- Ella Maillart Quote

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
- Ella Maillart Quote

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

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
- Ella Maillart Quote

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
- Ella Maillart Quote

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.
- Ella Maillart Quote

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

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

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
- Ella Maillart Quote

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.
- Ella Maillart Quote

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