Elisabeth Kubler Ross Quotes

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

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.

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

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

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.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

It is very important that you do only what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may live in a shabby place, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days, you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do.

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 on some linear timeline in grief.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose. ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS, M.D.

Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life. If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts.

/“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

If not for death would we appreciate life?

You are alone. There is a wall now where none existed before, standing between you and the rest of the world.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss,” as Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross says.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself.

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 By

Jennifer was told to be strong for her children when her husband died. Today she wonders about the message her dry eyes implied. Did her children think she didn’t care? “What if I did cry in front of the kids? What if I modeled grief for them in that way? I could have said, ‘Mommy is sad and crying because Daddy has died.’ I could have reassured them that I was still strong enough to be there for them and take care of them.” Children need to know that strong people cry when loved ones die and that does not hamper their ability to go on with life.

There are many, many great books available in every format – all affordable to anyone.  Please visit Amazon.com and search for child loss books.  Read the reviews and choose books that you feel would be helpful to you.  I’m so pleased to say that a book I authored more than twenty years ago, Silent Grief, is one the few books on child loss that remains in the top 100 best books on child loss for over twenty years.  Silent Grief is truly a timeless classic and it will give you much-needed insights into the world of grief, hope, and healing for child loss. I highly recommend any books by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the woman who literally brought the word “grief” to the

Acceptance is often confused with the notion of being alright or okay with what has happened. This is not the case.

If we could combine the teaching of the new scientific and technical achievements with equal emphasis on the interpersonal human relationships we could indeed make progress, but not if the new knowledge is conveyed to the student at the price of less and less interpersonal contact

The most beautiful people. . . are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Cuando se aprende la lección, el dolor desaparece

Morir no es algo que haya que temer; puede ser la experiencia más maravillosa de la vida. Todo depende de cómo hemos vivido.

Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, take with us.

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor should you want to. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler~ ~***~

The most beautiful people we have known are those that have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. Those persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross~

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings. Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Elisabeth understood that life is a passage with a beginning and an end, and that it was time for humanity to face the end of life with as much awareness, dignity, and love as that accorded to birth. Bringing this truth to the world became her life mission.