People Who Are Dying Quotes

I’m not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on ‘how to cope’ to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested.  He now sees other things as more important.  People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.

You said, ‘How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?’ But with that people we made a democracy work.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them – you don’t even have to talk. You don’t have to do anything but really be there with them.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don’t even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.