Best Martha Gellhorn Quotes
- There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on. Camps
- If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so… All
- travel is compost for the mind Compost
- I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. Ever Marry
- War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it… Act
- the ends never justify the means because IT never ends. Ends
- Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed. All
- I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards.… Afterwards
- The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make… Angry
- What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain. Alone
- A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am… Ashamed
- Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. Better
- By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first. Best
- And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish. America
- The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched… Bodies
- I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started. Daily