Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 5 of 10

201. “I know I cannot do this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded. But if Professor Morris Schwartz taught me anything at all, it was this: there is no such thing as “too late” in life. He was changing until the day he said good-bye.”

— Mitch Albom

202. “This was the story he told himself, and the stories we tell ourselves long enough become our truths.”

— Mitch Albom

203. “If you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can’t talk openly about what goes on between you, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don’t have a common set of values in life, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.”

— Mitch Albom

204. “Death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”

— Mitch Albom

205. “When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.”

— Mitch Albom

206. “War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.”

— Mitch Albom

207. “Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.” -Morrie-.”

— Mitch Albom

208. “Shouldn’t the world stop? Don’t they know what has happened to me?”

— Mitch Albom

209. “He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn’t always pretty. But then, he didn’t worry about a partner. Morrie danced by himself.”

— Mitch Albom

210. “When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.”

— Mitch Albom

211. “Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.”

— Mitch Albom

212. “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

213. “When we are most alone is when we embrace another’s loneliness.”

— Mitch Albom

214. “The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don’t think about getting it back, you’ve given it in love.”

— Mitch Albom

215. “What’s wrong with being number 2?”

— Mitch Albom

216. “You can be a mama’s boy, be a daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.”

— Mitch Albom

217. “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

218. “Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.”

— Mitch Albom

219. “Silence is worse when you know it won’t be broken.”

— Mitch Albom

220. “Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?”

— Mitch Albom

221. “But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

223. “We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.”

— Mitch Albom

224. “ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.”

— Mitch Albom

225. “Take my condition. The things I am supposed to be embarrassed about now – not being able to walk, not being able to wipe my ass, waking up some mornings wanting to cry – there is nothing innately embarrassing or shaming about them. “It’s the same for women not being thin enough, or men not being rich enough. It’s just what our culture would have you believe. Don’t believe it.”

— Mitch Albom

226. “But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.”

— Mitch Albom

227. “People are only mean when they’re threatened, and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does.”

— Mitch Albom

228. “We all know how to be a child. It’s inside all of us. For me, it’s just remembering how to enjoy it.”

— Mitch Albom

229. “This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times – or you will be useless.”

— Mitch Albom

230. “There is a reason God limits our days.” “Why?” “To make each one precious.”

— Mitch Albom

231. “A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”

— Mitch Albom

232. “Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie’s symphony ends. And so, at last, we rest.”

— Mitch Albom

233. “Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. “What a waste,” he said. “All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.”

— Mitch Albom

234. “That’s what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.”

— Mitch Albom

235. “Things that happen before you are born still affect you... And people who come before your time affect you as well. We move through places everyday 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

236. “Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creatures endures. A fear of time running out.”

— Mitch Albom

237. “Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.”

— Mitch Albom

238. “I hope that one day you will think of me as your friend.”

— Mitch Albom

239. “Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.”

— Mitch Albom

240. “People often belittle the place where they were born.”

— Mitch Albom

241. “You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.”

— Mitch Albom

242. “Take any emotion – love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions – if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them – you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.”

— Mitch Albom

243. “The word ‘commitment’ has lost it’s meaning. I’m old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don’t want to tie yourself down...”

— Mitch Albom

244. “No story sits by itself. Our lives connect like threads on a loom, interwoven in ways we never realise.”

— Mitch Albom

245. “The end of loneliness is when someone needs you. And the world is so full of need.”

— Mitch Albom

246. “Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.”

— Mitch Albom

247. “The old darkness has taken a seat alongside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commuter on a crowded bus.”

— Mitch Albom

248. “Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.”

— Mitch Albom

249. “How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?”

— Mitch Albom

250. “But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”

— Mitch Albom