WIST Quotations

Stark, Freya Madeline -- Ionia: A Quest, ch. 17 (1954)

Dave — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 20:46:31 +0000

Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offense. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

Freya Stark (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer [Freya Madeline Stark]
Ionia: A Quest, ch. 17 (1954)
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Stark, Freya Madeline -- Perseus in the Wind, ch. 16 (1948).

Dave — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:51:32 +0000

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 (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer [Freya Madeline Stark]
Perseus in the Wind, ch. 16 (1948).

Stark, Freya Madeline -- The Freya Stark Story (1953)

Dave — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:19:33 +0000

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

Freya Stark (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer [Freya Madeline Stark]
The Freya Stark Story (1953)
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See Propertius.

Stark, Freya Madeline -- The Journey’s Echo

Dave — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:36:13 +0000

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

Freya Stark (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer [Freya Madeline Stark]
The Journey’s Echo

Stark, Freya Madeline -- The Valleys of the Assassins, ch. 2 (1934)

Dave — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:27:38 +0000

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 (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer [Freya Madeline Stark]
The Valleys of the Assassins, ch. 2 (1934)

Stark, Freya Madeline -- Traveller’s Prelude, ch. 10 (1950)

Dave — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:49:05 +0000

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct of love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

Freya Stark (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer [Freya Madeline Stark]
Traveller’s Prelude, ch. 10 (1950)