Freya Stark Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• 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

  Sorrow, Divine, Streams

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

• 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 to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

  Freya Stark

  Inspirational, Sex, Children

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

• 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

  Pain, Sorrow, Causes

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.124, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

• 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

  Art, Law, Doors

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

• ... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

  Freya Stark

  Sex, Love Is, Roots

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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