Quotes by Martha Gellhorn

Explore a curated collection of 9 quotes by Martha Gellhorn. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The sensible approach woul — Martha Gellhorn
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do wi — Martha Gellhorn
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 a — Martha Gellhorn
I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled — Martha Gellhorn
A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I h — Martha Gellhorn
Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not underst — Martha Gellhorn
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing ou — Martha Gellhorn
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, — Martha Gellhorn
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. — Martha Gellhorn