Isabelle Eberhardt citations

“Tout le grand charme poignant de la vie vient peut-être de la certitude absolue de la mort. Si les choses devaient durer, elles nous sembleraient indignes d'attachement.”

Isabelle Eberhardt

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

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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.”

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Isabelle Eberhardt

Source: The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

“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.”

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Isabelle Eberhardt

Source: The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt