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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. ”