Freya Stark Quotes

Freya Stark — English Writer born on January 31, 1893, died on May 09, 1993

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... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

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

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.