Martha Gellhorn Quotes

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and...

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human...

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility ...

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians be...

On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run t...

No wars, in the war-logged record of our species, have been terminal. Until now, when we know that n...

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude...

Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again.

... none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a specie...

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years...

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the wa...

It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The se...

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts ...

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally use...

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts ...

I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn f...

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are...