Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 4 of 10

151. “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

— Mitch Albom

152. “She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.”

— Mitch Albom

153. “It’s the thinking that gets you killed.”

— Mitch Albom

154. “There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.”

— Mitch Albom

155. “Sunflowers waiting for the sunshine. Violets just waiting for dew. Bees just waiting for honey And honey, I’m just waiting for you!”

— Mitch Albom

156. “Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.”

— Mitch Albom

157. “Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”

— Mitch Albom

158. “When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”

— Mitch Albom

159. “There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.”

— Mitch Albom

160. “It’s never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.”

— Mitch Albom

161. “People say they “find” love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a CERTAIN love.”

— Mitch Albom

162. “Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.”

— Mitch Albom

163. “Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

— Mitch Albom

164. “When you’re in bed, you’re dead.”

— Mitch Albom

165. “There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding time, because none of us know how much we have, and it is an affront to God to assume there will be more.”

— Mitch Albom

166. “No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be.”

— Mitch Albom

167. “I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.”

— Mitch Albom

168. “Orang-orang asing adalah keluarga yang belum kau kenal.”

— Mitch Albom

169. “This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.”

— Mitch Albom

170. “Life has to end, she said. Love doesn’t.”

— Mitch Albom

171. “We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time – we often think they began with our arrival. That’s not true.”

— Mitch Albom

172. “I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”

— Mitch Albom

173. “Detroit is a place where we’ve had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.”

— Mitch Albom

174. “When we build, we build on the shoulders of those who came before us. And when we fall apart, those who came before us help put us back together.”

— Mitch Albom

175. “No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.”

— Mitch Albom

176. “Something is always happening somewhere.”

— Mitch Albom

177. “Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand – even in dreams.”

— Mitch Albom

178. “It’s always difficult to watch someone you love die.”

— Mitch Albom

179. “We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.”

— Mitch Albom

180. “Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still – until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.”

— Mitch Albom

181. “Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.”

— Mitch Albom

182. “One withers, another grows.”

— Mitch Albom

183. “The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.”

— Mitch Albom

184. “Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.”

— Mitch Albom

185. “Truth is light. Lies are shadows. Music is both.”

— Mitch Albom

186. “Love each other or die.”

— Mitch Albom

187. “No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.”

— Mitch Albom

188. “Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.”

— Mitch Albom

189. “We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.”

— Mitch Albom

190. “Things change when you’re not in danger anymore.”

— Mitch Albom

191. “I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you’ve touched while you were here on earth.”

— Mitch Albom

192. “Holding on to things only breaks your heart.”

— Mitch Albom

193. “If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.”

— Mitch Albom

194. “Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside.”

— Mitch Albom

195. “I don’t use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can’t read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.”

— Mitch Albom

196. “If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.”

— Mitch Albom

197. “But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.”

— Mitch Albom

198. “Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.”

— Mitch Albom

199. “I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I’ve hit a snag in my writing.”

— Mitch Albom

200. “You are born into your first one. Your mother plays the lead. She shares the stage with your father and siblings. Or perhaps your father is absent, an empty stool under a spotlight. But he is still a founding member, and if he surfaces one day, you will have to make room for him.”

— Mitch Albom