Emotional Stages Quotes

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

We’ve all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In contrast, I realized, happiness has four stages. To eke out the most happiness from an experience we must: anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.

After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.

Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.

There were times where I felt I was pressing a little bit too hard with the humor, and I had to pull back, because the overriding concern of the book was to create this disease that had no cure and make you pay attention to every emotional stage of what happens.