Freya Stark Quotes

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

Freya Stark

Baghdad Sketches

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

Freya Stark

The Journey's Echo (1963), p. 161 https://books.google.com/books?id=xlFbAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22There+can+be+no+happiness+if+the+things+we+believe+in+are+different+from+the+things+we+do.%22.

“One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.”

Freya Stark

Cited in Molly Izzard, A Marvellous Eye, Cornucopia Issue 2. From Wikipedia: Freya Stark. Retrieved 2009-08-25

“One life is an absurdly small allowance.”

Freya Stark

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

Freya Stark