Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Quotes about death

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was American psychiatrist. Explore interesting quotes on death.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: 52 quotes26 likes

“Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“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 Kübler-Ross

“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 Kübler-Ross

On Death and Dying (1969)

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Source: On Death and Dying (1969), Ch. 9

“Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Source: Death: The Final Stage of Growth (1975), Ch. 5

“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 Kübler-Ross

Source: Death: The Final Stage of Growth (1975), Ch. 2