Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Swiss-American · 1926–2004
Psychiatrist who pioneered the study of death and dying, introduced the five stages of grief, and transformed how medicine and society approach mortality.
Wikipedia ↗“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.”
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“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
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“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.”
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“There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
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“I have learned that there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?”
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“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.”
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