Quotes from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

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

We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.

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

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.

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

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.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.

When someone is telling you their story over and over, they are trying to figure something out.

We usually know more about suppressing anger than feeling it. Tell a counselor how angry you are. Share it with friends and family. Scream into a pillow. Find ways to get it out without hurting yourself or someone else. Try walking, swimming, gardening—any type of exercise helps you externalize your anger. Do not bottle up anger inside. Instead, explore it. The anger is just another indication of the intensity of your love.

You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.

you are worthy and lovable, just as you are, on your own.

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

We often tend to ignore how much of a child is still in all of us.

Birth is not a beginning and death is not an ending. They are merely points on a continuum.

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

Your sorrow is the inevitable result of circumstances beyond your control

You may also be angry with yourself that you couldn't stop it from happening.