Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

Death is an absolute marvel.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Birth was the death of him.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Death is a very important part of life.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

All I can say is, death is a part of life.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Death is an art, you know.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

The goal of all life is death.