Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Hello, Edward. I’ve been waiting for you.”

— Mitch Albom

102. “I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.”

— Mitch Albom

103. “Most of us all walk around as if we’re sleepwalking. We really don’t experience the world fully, because we’re half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”

— Mitch Albom

104. “There are no random acts.”

— Mitch Albom

105. “I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.”

— Mitch Albom

106. “When a lost loved one appears before you, it’s your brain that fights it, not your heart.”

— Mitch Albom

107. “You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.”

— Mitch Albom

108. “You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.”

— Mitch Albom

109. “Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.”

— Mitch Albom

110. “Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem.”

— Mitch Albom

111. “Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own. Most people can’t do it.”

— Mitch Albom

112. “Catholic ritual of Sancta Missa: “ ‘Come in haste to assist them, you saints of God. Come in haste to meet them, you angels of the Lord. Enfold in your arms these souls, and take your burden heavenward to the most high.”

— Mitch Albom

113. “Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.”

— Mitch Albom

114. “Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.”

— Mitch Albom

115. “I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all.”

— Mitch Albom

116. “Without love we all like birds with broken wings.”

— Mitch Albom

117. “The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”

— Mitch Albom

118. “It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

— Mitch Albom

119. “Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”

— Mitch Albom

120. “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all.”

— Mitch Albom

121. “Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”

— Mitch Albom

122. “What we carry defines who we are and the effort we make is our legacy.”

— Mitch Albom

123. “All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn’t what you thought.”

— Mitch Albom

124. “Love is not revenge. It can’t be thrown like a rock. And you can’t create it to fix your problems. Forcing love is like picking a flower then insisting that it grow.”

— Mitch Albom

125. “Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them – a mother’s approval, a father’s nod – are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

— Mitch Albom

126. “I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you’ll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn’t.”

— Mitch Albom

127. “Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.”

— Mitch Albom

128. “There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.”

— Mitch Albom

129. “There are five people you meet in heaven,” the Blue Man suddenly said. “Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”

— Mitch Albom

130. “Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.”

— Mitch Albom

131. “At that moment i felt lonelier than i’d ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.”

— Mitch Albom

132. “Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

— Mitch Albom

133. “A child is both an anchor and a set of wings. My old way of doing things was gone.”

— Mitch Albom

134. “Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.”

— Mitch Albom

135. “I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”

— Mitch Albom

136. “You’re not listening with your eyes.”

— Mitch Albom

137. “In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.”

— Mitch Albom

138. “But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”

— Mitch Albom

139. “I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.”

— Mitch Albom

140. “Do you know what causes wind? High pressure meeting low pressure. Warm meeting cold. Change. Change causes wind. and the bigger the change, the stronger the wind blows.”

— Mitch Albom

141. “You have to work at creating your own culture.”

— Mitch Albom

142. “Love or Perish.”

— Mitch Albom

143. “That’s what we’re all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing.” Which is? “Make peace with living.”

— Mitch Albom

144. “Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it.”

— Mitch Albom

145. “You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It’s a lifetime in itself.”

— Mitch Albom

146. “If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I’m amazed by how many people don’t bother to do that.”

— Mitch Albom

147. “A teacher’s shadow can hover for life.”

— Mitch Albom

148. “Small towns have their own heartbeat, no matter how many people come or go.”

— Mitch Albom

149. “He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.”

— Mitch Albom

150. “Remember me for these days, not the old ones.”

— Mitch Albom