Best quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Death

Checkout quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Death

• ‟ 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 definitions of who and what we are.

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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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• ‟ Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

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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 reaction to the unfairness of loss.

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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 transition between the two.

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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 - and with it, the guilt.

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

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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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• ‟ 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 qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.

  - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross