“Your sorrow is the inevitable result of circumstances beyond your control,” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in 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
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 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
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
“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
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
“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
Grief is real because loss is real. Each grief has its own imprint, as distinctive and as unique as the person we… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“That’s really what grief has taught me. That I can survive. I used to be afraid that if I experienced grief it… — Elisabeth Kübler-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
“This time, I heard a loud voice, literally heralding the reality that my daughter was never coming back. This time the depression… — Elisabeth Kübler-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
