Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

I've had - after my mom passed away - like a lot of resentment, a lot of things that just happened after I lost my mom.

It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

No one can sustain rage for long. I am still angry and always will be. My dear son was stolen from me and his family to never return. He was killed for profit and lies. How can I not be angry? Sometimes though, the rage comes back.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

A piece of each of us died.

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

Talking about the loss of my parents... that was really, really difficult to go through.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with.

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.