Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“loss counts more than another. It is your loss that counts for you. It is your loss that affects you. Your loss… — 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
Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right,… — 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… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
When we look back in time and study old cultures and people, we are impressed that death has always been distasteful to… — 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 Image
Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
