Ella Maillart Quotes

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I'm going on an adventure!

our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

Something about exploration has fascinated me from a young age.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

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

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Life is just a journey.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

I'm an explorer.

Not all those who wander are lost.

One makes a trip by day, but by night, one sets out on a journey.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.