Quotes by : Martha Gellhorn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 war.....

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