Martha Gellhorn Quotes

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.