Freya Stark Quotes

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."
- Freya Stark
(Related: Being, Comfort, Woman)

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
- Freya Stark
(Related: Sensations, World)

"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."
- Freya Stark
(Related: Fear, Causes, Debt, Hunger, Pain, Sorrow)

"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age."
- Freya Stark
(Related: Age, Faith, Life, Old, Quiet, Richness, Surprises, Will)

"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."
- Freya Stark
(Related: Family, Soul, Giants, Race)

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."
- Freya Stark
(Related: Nature, Curiosity)

"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."
- Freya Stark
(Related: Home, Heart, Christmas)

"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."
- Freya Stark
(Related: Art, Family, Life, Absence)