“You may find that your God is strong enough to handle your anger, strong enough to feel compassion and love for you,… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“grieving, when we miss our loved ones even more than usual. How can you celebrate togetherness when there is none? When you… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share
Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share
When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share
“La única finalidad de la vida es crecer. La lección última es aprender a amar y a ser amados incondicionalmente.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share
“We need time to move through the pain of loss. We need to step into it, really to get to know it, in order… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share
“The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share
Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share
We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share
In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are raised in… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share
I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share
“You can become a channel and a source of great inner strength. But you must give up everything in order to gain everything. What… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share
You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share
