Mallory Ortberg Quotes

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

Seven years is a long time, and he was there for me, when my mum died. He was very compassionate at that time. I couldn't have found anyone better in that situation.

The reality is that we communicate with every part of our being, and there are times when we must use it all. When someone needs us, he or she needs all of us. There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

I want everyone to know there is always someone there for you.

All should take care of the sick

People call me and they want talk, they need to get something off their mind, I got all the time in the world for them.

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

Find someone who is having a hard time, or is ill, or lonely, and do something for him or her.

Freddie obviously knew he was ill long before we did. We knew there was something wrong, but we didn't know what it was. He told us eventually. We didnt want to believe it was true. But we all stuck round him, formed a circle, and gave him support.

Kindness will always make things feel better, more stable.

I think this world needs a little more hugging in their lives.

Many of us have experienced the pain that comes with watching a loved one suffer with a serious illness. We also know that we would do absolutely anything it takes to help them beat it.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.