Isabelle Eberhardt Quotes

One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

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.

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

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

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

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

No prayers, no medicines, merely the ineffable happiness of dying.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

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

For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.