While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
