Isabelle Eberhardt Quotes
Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.
But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.
For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life
The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.
We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.
To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.
I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.
I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.
