Create Yours

Top 40 Ella Maillart Quotes (2025 Update)

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: “It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.”
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: “The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.”
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: “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 escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one’s mind.”
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: “Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.”
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: “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.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world’s end.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.”
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: “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: “Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.”
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: “I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “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.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “Certain travelers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world’s end.”
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 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.”
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: “When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?”
Ella Maillart Quote: “I write with my foot.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “One travels to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does.”
Ella Maillart Quote: “I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.”
Motivational Quotes
Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes
Positive Quotes
Albert Einstein Quotes
Startup Quotes
Steve Jobs Quotes
Success Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
Courage Quotes
Life Quotes
Focus Quotes
Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 40 Ella Maillart Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Learn more