When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“As you grow stronger, it may return from time to time, but that is how grief works. A” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms:… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence… — 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
“And death has a cruel way of giving regrets more attention than they deserve. The” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately.… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need… — 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
