Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quote: It is not the end of the physical...

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

Source: Death: The Final Stage of Growth - 1975

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Select Quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Source: Death: The Final Stage of Growth - 1975

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