Beryl Markham Quotes (6 Quotes)

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people that you know about yourself.

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

Africa is mystic it is wild it is a sweltering inferno it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home'. It is all these things but one thing it is never dull.

Success breeds confidence.