Quotes by Freya Stark

About Freya Stark:

Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne, DBE was a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabians to travel through the southern Arabian Deserts.
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What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot feel right without assuming that the rest must be wro...

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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.

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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

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Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

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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.

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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.

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Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

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Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, gi...

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The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

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Author Bio

  • NameFreya Stark
  • DescriptionTravel writer
  • AliasesFreya Madeline Stark
  • BornJanuary 31, 1893
  • DiedMay 9, 1993
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionExplorer; Author; Travel Writer; Photographer; Essayist
  • AwardsDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire