119 Quotes by Martha Gellhorn

I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else’s life.

It is amazing that the refugees stay sane. First the bombs, perhaps the “battle” around them, their casualties, their naked helplessness; then the flight, leaving behind everything they have worked for all their lives; then the semi-starvation and ugly hardship of the camps or the slums; and as a final cruelty, the killing diseases which only strike at them.

If there is a war, then all of the things most of us do won’t matter any more. I have a feeling that one has to work all day and all night and live too, and swim and get the sun one’s hair and laugh and love as many people as one can find around and do this all terribly fast, because the time getting shorter and shorter every day.

He had no other life and no other knowledge; he knew that he could not live anywhere now because in his mind, slyly, there was nothing but horror.

I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved... stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.

I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility of man, which is what would be required for world peace; I only believe in the human race. I believe the human race must continue.

What gave these krauts a right to say who should be born and who shouldn’t, and who could live and be let alone, and who would get caught and killed?

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