Quotes about death
death pain lessons
When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death pain long
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death commitment needs
We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death lessons clue
Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death spring butterfly
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death worry alive
It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death pain war
I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war? Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death self growth
Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death each-day ifs
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death procrastination knowing
Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death facts accepting
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death taught graduates
Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death dying earth
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death progress complaining
We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death real choices
And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death children sky
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death hate appreciate
There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal is love? At these moments you can either hold on to negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal and keep on loving. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death doctors matter
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death spiritual creativity
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death soul body
When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death lonely dying
dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death spiritual health
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death butterfly grieving
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death spiritual self
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death moving car
It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death running zero
We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death peace war
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez
death stars writing
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night? Logan Pearsall Smith
death real writing
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. John Green
death cancer honor
Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of. John Green
death real thinking
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going. John Green
death doors life-death
Death hath so many doors to let out life. John Fletcher
death suicide lasts
The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!' Jon Stewart