Top 100 Freya's Quotes

#1. On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #3641
#2. The pain never goes away, Freya, but it becomes manageable. One day, you'll wake up and realize you can breathe a little easier than the day before. Until then, all you can do is lean on people closest to you... lean on me. I want you to.

Jessica Prince

Freya's Quotes #6232
#3. What need for feathers now? What need to confirm their loss? While the womb-red sky swelled with the promise of tomorrow, and he rode the warm, crimson currents, skimming, wheeling and gliding.

Georgina Anne Taylor

Freya's Quotes #8361
#4. I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered ...

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #14284
#5. Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #15956
#6. Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well have made her self-indulgently reflective.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #19555
#7. I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.

Donna Air

Freya's Quotes #22342
#8. I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #26987
#9. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #60008
#10. Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #84552
#11. Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #86389
#12. The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #98115
#13. Am I falling in love? She thought, is it safe to do so with this man? She thought, I don't need to answer.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #118302
#14. The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #126003
#15. The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #130900
#16. Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #132409
#17. You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love.

Melissa De La Cruz

Freya's Quotes #141074
#18. I started with her feet. I knelt and kissed them; each toe was soft and strong.

Thomas Ullman

Freya's Quotes #165046
#19. Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #169838
#20. I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #179780
#21. Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #181732
#22. Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #183537
#23. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.

Simona Panova

Freya's Quotes #205851
#24. There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #241275
#25. It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #246770
#26. That's the beauty about love. It's not about give-and-take - it's about feeling safe in one's needs - wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #253818
#27. Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #255347
#28. I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #255743
#29. Every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #259016
#30. What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #261854
#31. She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excitement to think of anything else.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #262793
#32. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #272120
#33. Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #272795
#34. Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #277918
#35. Intentionally, or unintentionally, Kat had spoken with her eyes; tenderly and lovingly conveying a message to Freya that her tongue wouldn't let her speak. It was glaringly obvious they both felt it. The words were not important. The pauses, gazes, and drawn out breaths were what mattered.

Kiki Archer

Freya's Quotes #331005
#36. Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #343529
#37. 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.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #345656
#38. I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #358275
#39. Freya, I killed a man.

Kate Lord Brown

Freya's Quotes #378284
#40. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #384132
#41. All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #385756
#42. Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #390643
#43. Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #429293
#44. your clothes?" "Nope. Let 'em stare." Carrie

Freya Lange

Freya's Quotes #442158
#45. Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing ...

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #444565
#46. The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #471862
#47. Monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #476347
#48. Freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #513569
#49. Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #535744
#50. In life we have to size up the chances and calculate the possible risks and our ability to deal with them and then make our plans accordingly.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #539314
#51. 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.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #542934
#52. The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #549237
#53. I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #552239
#54. You say I'm a demigod. I say I'm a receipt. My dad crafted a pair of earrings for Freya. She married him for a day. She

Rick Riordan

Freya's Quotes #553345
#55. can't help but smile. Sure, I have no idea how I'm going to come up with a viable experiment on emotions, but I'm not worrying about it on my own. Just the 'we' in Freya's sentence makes me feel like everything will be okay. Eventually.

Anonymous

Freya's Quotes #560817
#56. It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #576620
#57. I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #581048
#58. She realised with every inch of her being that she wanted Freya; she was in love with Freya. Her mind, with its perfectly rational arguments, had list the battle with her heart. She felt it. It was real. The conflict was torture.

Kiki Archer

Freya's Quotes #589778
#59. The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #594614
#60. The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues ...

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #595109
#61. From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #617195
#62. Freya led Sartre to the first tent, near the water. Sartre pushed back the flap so that they could both enter. Two bushy-bearded gentlemen dressed as Vikings, one on top of the other, kissed hungrily at each other, making slurping spaghetti sounds.

Dylan Callens

Freya's Quotes #618318
#63. It is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #630904
#64. It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #648933
#65. 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

Freya's Quotes #705668
#66. Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort ...

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #707033
#67. Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body ...

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #718004
#68. I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #723500
#69. Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #730749
#70. The main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #741579
#71. Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #757635
#72. I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #763875
#73. 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

Freya's Quotes #764579
#74. It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #771578
#75. Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #787028
#76. If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #820330
#77. There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #822428
#78. So now I'm popular?" Freya says. "They hate me, and I hit someone, and now they like me?

Kim Stanley Robinson

Freya's Quotes #855800
#79. It is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #862299
#80. The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is ...

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #894535
#81. 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.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #907174
#82. The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words ... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #957673
#83. Frey was the god of spring and summer! read the caption. He was the god of wealth, abundance, and fertility. His twin sister, Freya, the goddess of love, was very pretty! She had cats!

Rick Riordan

Freya's Quotes #961382
#84. Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #982203
#85. I'll never forget what she said to me about having a baby. She said that she would wake in the morning to my cries, and wonder how she would get through another day. Perhaps Freya wasn't a natural mother - some women aren't, I suppose, and it can't have been easy for her.

Kate Lord Brown

Freya's Quotes #983491
#86. Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #998424
#87. I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #1005087
#88. Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance ...

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #1007100
#89. His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #1011080
#90. This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ...

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #1011550
#91. He stared at her breasts incredulously, but not with lust. "For the love of Freya! You wear Ruby's strange undergarment. Lingerie, methinks she named it."
"This is not my mother's bra." Rain clamped her jaw shut defiantly, then demanded to know, "How did you ever see my mother's underwear?

Sandra Hill

Freya's Quotes #1015577
#92. The gooseneck," Badim adds, with a quick smile at Freya. "It connects the boom to the mast, but it isn't very robust.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Freya's Quotes #1017372
#93. She was tired of people saying things they thought she wanted to hear almost as much as she dreaded them saying the things she didn't want to listen to.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #1021708
#94. Friday's a free day. A woman's day.

Neil Gaiman

Freya's Quotes #1109366
#95. Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #1211329
#96. The closest she had been to them was certain summer evenings when they had gone for picnics in the magravine's ice-barge -- simple family affairs, just Freya and Mama and Papa and about seventy servants and courtiers

Philip Reeve

Freya's Quotes #1352670
#97. Is there anything more beautiful than gold?" - Freya's question.

Plain-thoughted Thor spoke. "A farm at first light
Is more beautiful than gold, or
A ship's sails in the mist.
Many ordinary things are far more beautiful.

George Webbe Dasent

Freya's Quotes #1542942
#98. It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him.

Freya North

Freya's Quotes #1692652
#99. The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday ...

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #1712841
#100. I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

Freya Stark

Freya's Quotes #1826807

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