Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quote: We make progress in society only if we...

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

Source: Living With Death and Dying - 1981

society stop progress make something

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

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

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