Isabelle Eberhardt Quotes

I Am Not Afraid Of Death, But Would Not Want To Die In Some Obscure Or Pointless Way.

Death Does Not Frighten Me, But Dying Obscurely And Above All Uselessly Does.

I Think It Is Impossible For Human Minds To Think Of Death As A Final, Irrevocable End To Life.

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.

We Are, All Of Us, Poor Wretches, And Those Who Prefer Not To Understand This Are Even Worse Off Than The Rest Of Us.

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.

Oh If At Every Moment Of Our Lives We Could Know The Consequences Of Some Of The Utterings, Thoughts And Deeds That Seem So Trivial And Unimportant At The Time! And Should We Not Conclude From Such Examples That There Is No Such Thing In Life As Unimportant Moments Devoid Of Meaning For The Future?

One Must Use The Weapons One Finds In One's Path.

I Will Always Be Haunted By Thoughts Of A Sun-drenched Elsewhere.

To Be Alone Is To Be Free, And Freedom Was The Only Happiness Accessible To My Nature.

While To Live In The Past And Think Of What Was Good And Beautiful About It Amounts To A Sort Of Seasoning Of The Present, The Perennial Wait For Tomorrow Is Bound To Result In Chronic Discontent That Poisons One's Entire Outlook.