Quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

About Elisabeth Kubler-Ross:

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief.
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The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops...

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It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural react...

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The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

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When we look back in time and study old cultures and people, we are impressed that death has always been distasteful to man and will probably always be. From a psychiatrist's point of view, this is very understandable and can perhaps best be explaine...

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I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

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People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

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Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

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Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitio...

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I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

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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 moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

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I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

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I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

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For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

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For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifi...

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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 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the ...

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When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - an...

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People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

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Author Bio

  • NameElisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • DescriptionAmerican psychiatrist
  • BornJuly 8, 1926
  • DiedAugust 24, 2004
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Switzerland
  • ProfessionPsychiatrist
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame