« All Patient Quotes · Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's Page
Patient Quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how…
- We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of…
- What is important is to realize that whether we understand fully who we are or what will happen when we die, it's our purpose to…
- Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this…
- Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them…
- My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.
- I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some…
More Patient Quotes
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire
- I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of… — Robert Benchley
- But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They… — Anna Benson
- In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of… — Alfred Adler
- We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. — Alfred Adler
- Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his… — Alfred Adler
- Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other.… — Donald Berwick
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
- What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe,… — Nellie Bly
- Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a… — Jo Brand
- For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal… — Geraldine Brooks