Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Hati yang utuh adalah hati yang pernah patah.”

— Mitch Albom

202. “You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days.”

— Mitch Albom

203. “Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my own life. I was busy.”

— Mitch Albom

204. “I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn’t mean you aren’t hearing it.”

— Mitch Albom

205. “Tension of opposites.”

— Mitch Albom

206. “This world can be a trying place, Inspector. Sometimes you have to shed who you were to live who you are.”

— Mitch Albom

207. “Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.”

— Mitch Albom

208. “For better or for worse, I’ve watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they’re not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody’s hand. And that’s real to me.”

— Mitch Albom

209. “The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own. Do you understand?” I nodded. “How can I be envious of where you are – when I’ve been there myself?”

— Mitch Albom

210. “In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death bring forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete.”

— Mitch Albom

211. “We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.”

— Mitch Albom

212. “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

213. “Despair has its own voice. It is a prayer unlike any other.”

— Mitch Albom

214. “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. ” – MAHATMA GANDHI.”

— Mitch Albom

215. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

217. “And fancy means phony.”

— Mitch Albom

218. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

221. “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

222. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

225. “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

226. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

229. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

231. “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

232. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

236. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

240. “There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.”

— Mitch Albom

241. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

244. “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

245. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

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

— Mitch Albom

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

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249. “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

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

— Mitch Albom