Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “You don’t know how to live until you learn how to die.”

— Mitch Albom

302. “The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby’s birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway – most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.”

— Mitch Albom

303. “In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie’s time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?”

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304. “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 pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”

— Mitch Albom

305. “Loss is as old as life itself. But for all our evolution, we are yet to accept it.”

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306. “We do not realize the sound the world makes – unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.”

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307. “I am every age, up to my own.”

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308. “War never stops; it only pauses.”

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309. “Didn’t people call New Year’s the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.”

— Mitch Albom

310. “We’re Tuesday people,” he said. Tuesday people, I repeated. Morrie smiled.”

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311. “One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.”

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312. “I’m too ugly to be a narcissist.”

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313. “If you could pack for heaven, this was how you’d do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”

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314. “Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”

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315. “How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.”

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316. “Kids chase the love that eludes them.”

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317. “This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.”

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318. “In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.”

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319. “All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?”

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320. “Here’s the thing,” he said. “People see me as a bridge. I’m not as alive as I used to be, but I’m not yet dead. I’m sort of... in-between.”

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321. “The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others...”

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322. “The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.”

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323. “Music is in the connection of human souls, speaking a language that needs no words. Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie’s.”

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324. “But everyone joins a band in this life. Only some of them play music.”

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325. “Do not stop your lives. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.”

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326. “It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”

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327. “The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.”

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328. “Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.”

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329. “Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

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330. “You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. That’s the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.”

— Mitch Albom

331. “But all endings are also beginnings.”

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332. “Strangers,” the Blue Man said, “are just family you have yet to come to know.”

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333. “That kind of love – the kind you realize you already have by the life you’ve created together – that’s the kind that lasts.”

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334. “The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.”

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335. “This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”

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336. “Mitch, if you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”

— Mitch Albom

337. “I mourn my dwindling time, but i cherish the chance it gives me to make things right.”

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338. “I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother’s death-notice telegram or by his father’s corpse in the city morgue.”

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339. “Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.”

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340. “It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more.”

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341. “Don’t let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that’s not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we’d treat each other better.”

— Mitch Albom

342. “Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.”

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343. “But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.”

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344. “Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

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345. “Much of what we called “depression” was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren’t willing to work for.”

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346. “Morrie closed his eyes. “I know, Mitch. You mustn’t be afraid of my dying. I’ve had a good life, and we all know it’s going to happen. I maybe have four or five months.”

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347. “To know you’re going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That’s better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living.”

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348. “Everyone is in such a hurry to find the meaning in their lives. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.”

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349. “The manager once called me the ‘best freak’ in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.”

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350. “Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.”

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