Freya Stark Quotes

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

~ Freya Stark

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

~ Freya Stark

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 wrong. Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself: I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates.

~ Freya Stark

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.

~ Freya Stark

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

~ Freya Stark

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

~ Freya Stark

Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.

~ Freya Stark

Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.

~ Freya Stark

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

~ Freya Stark

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

~ Freya Stark

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

~ Freya Stark

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

~ Freya Stark

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

~ Freya Stark