Quotes by : 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....

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

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

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

On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run....

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

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

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

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

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