Freya Stark Quotes

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

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever. - Freya Stark

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

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. - Freya Stark

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

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

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light. - Freya Stark

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future. - Freya Stark

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