Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

There's worse things in life than death.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

Denial of death at some point becomes a delusion.

If you die, you're not a failure.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.