"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."
-Ella Maillart
TravelView Quote
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.“
-Ella Maillart
posted in Imagination
Other Quotes by Ella Maillart
Discover more inspiring quotes by Ella Maillart
"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
-Ella Maillart
TravelView 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
HomeView 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
TravelView 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
TravelView 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
TravelView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
-Albert Einstein
ImaginationView Quote
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
-Dr. Seuss
ImaginationView Quote
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-Jorge Luis Borges
ImaginationView Quote
"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-Jane Austen
ImaginationView Quote
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
-Edgar Allan Poe
ImaginationView Quote
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath
ImaginationView Quote