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Top 20 Theresa Brown Quotes (2025 Update)

Theresa Brown Quote: “A mother’s death is a deep, some would say irreparable, loss.”

1. “A mother’s death is a deep, some would say irreparable, loss.”

— Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown Quote: “ICU is a hard place for me since it’s often the last stop for our sickest patients.”

2. “ICU is a hard place for me since it’s often the last stop for our sickest patients.”

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Theresa Brown Quote: “A shift lasts twelve hours. Twelve hours of holding a few lives in my hands, trying to make order out of the chaos of bodies and disease, working within a health care system that sometimes forgets it exists to serve human beings rather than bureaucrats or businessmen. Amid the many uncertainties of the shift there is one thing I know for sure. Am I ready and up to the job? Yes. Today, and every day, for the sake of my patients I have no other option; the answer has to be, and always is, Yes.”

3. “A shift lasts twelve hours. Twelve hours of holding a few lives in my hands, trying to make order out of the chaos of bodies and disease, working within a health care system that sometimes forgets it exists to serve human beings rather than bureaucrats or businessmen. Amid the many uncertainties of the shift there is one thing I know for sure. Am I ready and up to the job? Yes. Today, and every day, for the sake of my patients I have no other option; the answer has to be, and always is, Yes.”

— Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown Quote: “There will come a time when each of us will need a clean, well-lighted place that stays open all day and night, offering shelter from life’s storms. This is a hospital.”

4. “There will come a time when each of us will need a clean, well-lighted place that stays open all day and night, offering shelter from life’s storms. This is a hospital.”

— Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown Quote: “Work is love made visible. And what is it to work with love?” the poet Khalil Gibran wrote. In the hospital, working with love sometimes requires putting people in danger.”

5. “Work is love made visible. And what is it to work with love?” the poet Khalil Gibran wrote. In the hospital, working with love sometimes requires putting people in danger.”

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Theresa Brown Quote: “In all the hurly-burly, I’d forgotten, but now I remember: The most important thing of all is that everyone’s alive at the end of the day.”

6. “In all the hurly-burly, I’d forgotten, but now I remember: The most important thing of all is that everyone’s alive at the end of the day.”

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Theresa Brown Quote: “Patient care – looking after Sheila, Dorothy, Richard Hampton, and Candace – is heart and soul, but these days, charting pulls nurses away from the bedside more and more.”

7. “Patient care – looking after Sheila, Dorothy, Richard Hampton, and Candace – is heart and soul, but these days, charting pulls nurses away from the bedside more and more.”

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Theresa Brown Quote: “I rarely fall asleep easily after a shift, especially if I’m working the next one, but now quiescence comes, pushing at the edges of my mind. My breath deepens and I feel the calm of oblivion begin to cover me. I will do this all again tomorrow and then there will be another shift and another and another. To be in the eternal present of illness and unease, never knowing the future. It’s where my patients live so I, ever hopeful, live there with them.”

8. “I rarely fall asleep easily after a shift, especially if I’m working the next one, but now quiescence comes, pushing at the edges of my mind. My breath deepens and I feel the calm of oblivion begin to cover me. I will do this all again tomorrow and then there will be another shift and another and another. To be in the eternal present of illness and unease, never knowing the future. It’s where my patients live so I, ever hopeful, live there with them.”

— Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown Quote: “You can only know what you know, a wise friend told me, but so much is on the line here in the hospital I sometimes want to know more than I can.”

9. “You can only know what you know, a wise friend told me, but so much is on the line here in the hospital I sometimes want to know more than I can.”

— Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown Quote: “When people ask why I left teaching English to become a nurse, it must be moments like this that puzzle them.”

10. “When people ask why I left teaching English to become a nurse, it must be moments like this that puzzle them.”

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Theresa Brown Quote: “I hold infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in the next few crucial hours.”

11. “I hold infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in the next few crucial hours.”

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Theresa Brown Quote: “That’s the thing about empathy – even people with an abundance of it can run out.”

12. “That’s the thing about empathy – even people with an abundance of it can run out.”

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Theresa Brown Quote: “Perhaps if our bodies vanished when we died, death would be easier; part of the puzzlement of death is that the body stays, but the person we knew and loved will never come back. When.”

13. “Perhaps if our bodies vanished when we died, death would be easier; part of the puzzlement of death is that the body stays, but the person we knew and loved will never come back. When.”

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Theresa Brown Quote: “It’s not rational that some of us who work in health care expect ourselves to be omniscient. “If.”

14. “It’s not rational that some of us who work in health care expect ourselves to be omniscient. “If.”

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Theresa Brown Quote: “To picture what happens during the late stages of sepsis, imagine a garden hose with small holes placed throughout to turn it into a sprinkler. When a normal amount of water goes through the hose, the sprinkling effect is constant. If the flow decreases, the sprinkler effect becomes more erratic, and if the volume of water in the hose lessens even further, the sprinkler will turn into a leaky mess that waters only the strip of garden it rests on. The.”

15. “To picture what happens during the late stages of sepsis, imagine a garden hose with small holes placed throughout to turn it into a sprinkler. When a normal amount of water goes through the hose, the sprinkling effect is constant. If the flow decreases, the sprinkler effect becomes more erratic, and if the volume of water in the hose lessens even further, the sprinkler will turn into a leaky mess that waters only the strip of garden it rests on. The.”

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Theresa Brown Quote: “For patients who are rarely hospitalized, who have little understanding of how the human body works, who lack money, or simply don’t read or speak English very well, our high expectations of them as outpatients may make any outcome but failure unlikely. All of us who work in health care put our shoulder to that huge rock every day trying to get the system to work. But sometimes shift after shift it feels like the same damn rock. I’m.”

16. “For patients who are rarely hospitalized, who have little understanding of how the human body works, who lack money, or simply don’t read or speak English very well, our high expectations of them as outpatients may make any outcome but failure unlikely. All of us who work in health care put our shoulder to that huge rock every day trying to get the system to work. But sometimes shift after shift it feels like the same damn rock. I’m.”

— Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown Quote: “Designers of electronic charting systems don’t seem to understand that checklists themselves are not the innovation, because checklists are not substitutes for care. The real innovation is having staff use lists to consistently create the safest and highest-quality clinical environment possible.”

17. “Designers of electronic charting systems don’t seem to understand that checklists themselves are not the innovation, because checklists are not substitutes for care. The real innovation is having staff use lists to consistently create the safest and highest-quality clinical environment possible.”

— Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown Quote: “There’s nothing easy about helping someone start the journey from life to death. “They also serve who only stand and wait,” the poet Milton said. It’s a line I often hear in my head at work, where standing and waiting can be the best service we offer.”

18. “There’s nothing easy about helping someone start the journey from life to death. “They also serve who only stand and wait,” the poet Milton said. It’s a line I often hear in my head at work, where standing and waiting can be the best service we offer.”

— Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown Quote: “I look at her. This is the moment when she will leave my care for good. Mine may be the last familiar hospital face she sees before she goes under and I want her to remember it as calm and present.”

19. “I look at her. This is the moment when she will leave my care for good. Mine may be the last familiar hospital face she sees before she goes under and I want her to remember it as calm and present.”

— Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown Quote: “Irving’s story is the simplest. Whether by nature or as the result of his many troubles, Irving asked little of life and in that he was adequately answered. The group home kept him safe. The rocking chairs on the front porch were comfortable and the voices in his head weren’t too intrusive or demanding. From him I learned that sometimes when we strive less we end up with more of what we actually need.”

20. “Irving’s story is the simplest. Whether by nature or as the result of his many troubles, Irving asked little of life and in that he was adequately answered. The group home kept him safe. The rocking chairs on the front porch were comfortable and the voices in his head weren’t too intrusive or demanding. From him I learned that sometimes when we strive less we end up with more of what we actually need.”

— Theresa Brown

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