Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

• My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Events, Learn

• We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Generation, Responsible

• 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.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Peaceful, Human Being

• 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.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strength, Dying, Patient

• 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.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in People

• Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in God

• Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Yourself, Silence

• 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.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Spiritual

• 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.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Death, Society

• I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them – you don’t even have to talk. You don’t have to do anything but really be there with them.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Care, Dying

• 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.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Goal, Life

  Tags in Self, Hope

• I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Solely, Responsible, Lifetime

• 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.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Spiritual, Thought, Study

• Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dying, Human Beings

• As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don’t have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn’t matter as much as how you do what you do.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doctor, Social, Worker

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

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Suffering

• 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.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Die

• It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth — and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up — that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Death, Life

• 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 within.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Acceptance

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (22)

Birth:	8th July, 1926
Death:	24th August, 2004
Nationality:	American, Swiss
Profession:	Psychiatrist

About

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was born in Zürich, Switzerland. She was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief. She was the recipient of twenty honorary degrees and by July 1982 had taught, in her estimation, 125,000 students in death and dying courses in colleges, seminaries, medical schools, hospitals, and social-work institutions. In 1970, she delivered The Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality at Harvard University, on the theme, On Death and Dying. She graduated from the University of Zürich medical school in 1957.

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