Burying Quote by Jason F. Wright

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

— Dean Koontz

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by…

— Anne Bronte

She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty…

— Mother Teresa

“She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old…

— Isabel Allende

Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering…

— Martine Leavitt

“How could she have a kind view of the world when the people who are supposed to love her the most, treat her so…

— Deb Hanrahan

“… but she herself embodies their greatest, most therapeutic gift: the message that we are here to be here , to go through it…

— James Hollis

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids…

— Mario Testino

“She soon learned that to survive atrocity is to be made an honorary consul to a republic of pain. There existed unspoken protocols governing…

— Omar El Akkad

She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne