"I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them."
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Princess Diana quotes (page 4 of 6)
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"I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself."
"You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable."
"I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind."
"I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there."
"All people want to be touched."
"If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering."
"I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned."
"Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are."
"I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart."
"It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my wonderful husband had done a lot of wonderful work leading up to our marriage and our relationship. But then, over the years, you see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well. People make a lot of money out of you."
"My God. What's happened?"
"I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do."
"I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support."
"I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be."
"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
"As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought."
"I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness."
"My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam."
"Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray."