Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I've suffered quite a lot, to the point where I've experienced death. Years before I wasn't fit to die, but I understand life better now. Death is nice, death is beauty.

There’s an old Ritadarion saying. You’re never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn)

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.