161 Quotes by Freya Stark

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ...

One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.