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
We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very… — Elisabeth Kubler-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
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
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed,… — Elisabeth Kubler-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
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
