Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.”

— Mitch Albom

252. “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

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

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254. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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260. “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.”

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261. “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

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

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

— Mitch Albom

264. “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

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

— Mitch Albom

266. “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

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

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

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269. “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.”

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

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

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272. “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

273. “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.”

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274. “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...”

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

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

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277. “Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t hold their hand... You can’t tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn’t.”

— Mitch Albom

278. “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

279. “The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you.”

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

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

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282. “People are only mean when they are threatened.”

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283. “If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.”

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284. “But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.”

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285. “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.”

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286. “I hope you can find the healing power in grieving.”

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287. “Everyone joins a band in this life. One way or another, the band breaks up.”

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288. “But just because you have silenced a memory does not mean you are free of it.”

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289. “I’m on the last great journey here – and people want me to tell them what to pack.”

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290. “For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.”

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291. “Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father’s love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.”

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292. “Because one thing God gave us- and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.”

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293. “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. These are common expressions that hold varying truths of love.”

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294. “Once you have a sister, you never stop having her, even if you can no longer see or touch her.”

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295. “I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories that I’m going to hear. On you, if it’s Tuesday. Because we’re Tuesday people.”

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296. “People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.”

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297. “This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.”

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298. “A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.”

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299. “Why didn’t I feel this before?” she whispered. “Because we embrace our scars more than our healing,” Lorraine said. “We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?”

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300. “Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.”

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