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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss American psychiatrist who sat with thousands of dying patients and taught the world to speak plainly, gets quoted everywhere and sourced almost nowhere. The 5 quotes below are different: each one is checked word for word against the cited work, starting with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, not copied from aggregator sites that pass misattributions along. The source is named under every line, so you can trace each quote back to the page it came from.
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On why your grief does not move in a straight line:
The five stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, are not stops on some linear timeline.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving
On being told to move on too fast:
Grief is a process, not an event.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving
On being expected to get over it by a deadline:
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving
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On becoming a deeper person because of what you survived:
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.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Death: The Final Stage of Growth
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On facing a diagnosis that forces you to think about mortality now:
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On Death and Dying