Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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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252. “Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.”

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

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254. “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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255. “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.”

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

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

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

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259. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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266. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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274. “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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275. “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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276. “I hope you can find the healing power in grieving.”

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

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279. “Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. Sometimes it is only in your head. Sometimes it is right alongside their beds.”

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280. “The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”

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281. “Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.”

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

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283. “Morrie closed his eyes to absorb the notes. As my wife’s loving voice filled the room, a crescent smile appeared 0n his face. And while his body was stiff as a sandbag, you could almost see him dancing inside it.”

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284. “The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of – unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn’t get enough.”

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285. “Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”

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286. “As life goes on, you will join other bands, some through friendship, some through romance, some through neighborhoods, school, an army. Maybe you will all dress the same, or laugh at your own private vocabulary. Maybe you will flop on couches backstage, or share a boardroom table, or crowd around a galley inside a ship. But in each band you join, you will play a distinct part, and it will affect you as much as you affect it.”

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287. “You’re never in love with anyone the way you are when you’re eighteen, on a beach, at night, with your shoes off. I still can’t believe he’s gone.”

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288. “In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.”

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289. “What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want – someone to notice she was there.”

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290. “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.”

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291. “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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292. “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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293. “Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don’t wait, Mitch. Not everyone gets the time I’m getting. Not everyone is as lucky.” I.”

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294. “You only have peace when you make it with yourself.”

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295. “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. – 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.”

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296. “My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.”

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297. “And a man without memories is just a shell.”

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298. “No act done for someone else is ever wasted.”

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299. “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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300. “Miracles happen quietly every day – in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.”

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