From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
