Martha Gellhorn Quotes

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 out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. - Martha Gellhorn

Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. - Martha Gellhorn

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps. - Martha Gellhorn

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on. - 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 understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it. - Martha Gellhorn

The thing about war is that it has two sides... The first is the absolute horror of it. The other thing about it is you meet absolutely marvelous people ... brave and extraordinary people. - Martha Gellhorn

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 of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. - Martha Gellhorn

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time. - Martha Gellhorn

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. - Martha Gellhorn

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

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