Quotes by Isabelle Eberhardt

About Isabelle Eberhardt:

Isabelle Eberhardt was a Swiss explorer and writer who lived and travelled extensively in North Africa. For her time she was a liberated individual who rejected conventional European morality in favour of her own path and that of Islam. She died in a flash-flood in the desert at the age of 27.
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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.

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 thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

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 domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

Isabelle Eberhardt

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

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

Isabelle Eberhardt

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which moder...

Isabelle Eberhardt

Author Bio

  • NameIsabelle Eberhardt
  • DescriptionSwiss explorer
  • BornFebruary 17, 1877
  • DiedOctober 21, 1904
  • CountryRussian Empire
  • ProfessionExplorer; Journalist; Author