Princess Diana Quotes & Sayings

If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each. — Princess Diana

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

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them. — Princess Diana

I decline to go fox hunting. — Princess Diana

Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values. — Princess Diana

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny. — Princess Diana

Life is just a journey. — Princess Diana

One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me — Princess Diana

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them. — Princess Diana

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it. — Princess Diana

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. — Princess Diana

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. — Princess Diana

I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned. — Princess Diana

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them. — Princess Diana

Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray. — Princess Diana

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart. — Princess Diana

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes ... In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago. — Princess Diana

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me. — Princess Diana

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. — Princess Diana

Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint. — Princess Diana

You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you. — Princess Diana

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind. — Princess Diana

I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me. — Princess Diana

I love meeting people and helping them. — Princess Diana

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that — Princess Diana

I always thought Camilla was the perfect love match with Charles. — Princess Diana

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more. — Princess Diana

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's. — Princess Diana

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. — Princess Diana

Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell. — Princess Diana

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do. — Princess Diana

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana. — Princess Diana

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth. — Princess Diana

I don't go by the rule book — Princess Diana

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. — Princess Diana

I think when I came into marriage
especially when you've had divorced parents like myself ... You'd want to try even harder to make it work and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately want it to work; I desperately love my husband and I wanted to share everything together. And I thought that we were a very good team. — Princess Diana

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them. — Princess Diana

I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it. — Princess Diana

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that. — Princess Diana

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support. — Princess Diana

I am never going to get divorced, and that's that. — Princess Diana

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. — Princess Diana

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. — Princess Diana

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be. — Princess Diana

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure. — Princess Diana

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be. — Princess Diana

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal. — Princess Diana

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be. — Princess Diana

I'd like to be queen of people's hearts. — Princess Diana

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey. — Princess Diana

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them. — Princess Diana

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself. — Princess Diana

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it. — Princess Diana

I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness. — Princess Diana

You can't do anything good that you don't feel in your heart. — Princess Diana

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help. — Princess Diana

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them. — Princess Diana

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser. — Princess Diana

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head? — Princess Diana

It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed. — Princess Diana

I am always going to be true to myself. — Princess Diana

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved — Princess Diana

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other. — Princess Diana

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. — Princess Diana

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons. — Princess Diana

All people want to be touched. — Princess Diana

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting). — Princess Diana

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. — Princess Diana

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. — Princess Diana

I was compelled to perform. When I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through. — Princess Diana

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. — Princess Diana

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? — Princess Diana

As always, a million heartfelt thanks for bringing such joy into this chick's life. — Princess Diana

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. — Princess Diana

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father. — Princess Diana

I don't go by the rule book ... I lead from the heart, not the head. — Princess Diana

No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But ... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role ... I love being with people. — Princess Diana

I'm as thick as a plank. — Princess Diana

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead. — Princess Diana

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one. — Princess Diana

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you. — Princess Diana

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. — Princess Diana

I'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some. — Princess Diana

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. — Princess Diana

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love. — Princess Diana

I am all about caring. I have always been like that. — Princess Diana

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me. — Princess Diana

You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help. — Princess Diana

I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that. — Princess Diana