Isabelle Eberhardt Quotes

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

I miss being out on the road.

Ramblin' was in my blood.

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.

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...

I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk of the universe, true, but there’s still so much more to see. I doubt I’ll ever cure this wanderlust, and I’m content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it... He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

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

I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.

I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

The journey is my home.

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

If I don't travel, if I stay at home for a week, I would go out of my mind. That is just the way I am. I love to be on the move, and I am fortunate that I have friends all over the world.