Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

No Victory Without Suffering

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

Better to suffer than to die.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

No cross no crown.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

I struggled for so many years.

War made my everyday problems seem much smaller, and when it is hard sometimes, I just remember that it could be much worse.