Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

Death is a fearful thing.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Death always seems to be around me.

Society has a fascination with death.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

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.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.