Travel Quotes by Isabelle Eberhardt

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

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

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

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

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

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

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

One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

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

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

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

— Isabelle Eberhardt