Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

The past is buried and I mourn it with greater pain than many among you, because no human power can awaken it when the Crown itself has scattered ashes upon the coffin.

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

And it was different because I'd already lost her so many times, so many ways, in my head. And different because she was never really mine to lose. And different because this wasn't my fault.

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads to frustration for the patient. And it leaves grieving families convinced they did something wrong.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

I've learned to accept death better than most people.

With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life.

You don't get dead and there not be consequences.

It's hard when you let people down.

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.

I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.