Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Everyone is in such a hurry to find the meaning in their lives. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.”

— Mitch Albom

352. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

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

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

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355. “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

356. “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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357. “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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358. “Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.”

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

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360. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

361. “All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.”

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362. “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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363. “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

364. “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.”

— Mitch Albom

365. “All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence. And now, someplace beyond death, Eddie slumped against a stainless steel wall and dropped into a snowbank, stung again by the denial of a man whose love, almost inexplicably, he still coveted, a man ignoring him, even in heaven. His father. The damage done.”

— Mitch Albom

366. “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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367. “You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain – no matter how smart or accomplished – they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.”

— Mitch Albom

368. “When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.”

— Mitch Albom

369. “What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you’re so wrecked it’s hard to believe you ever were a child?”

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370. “And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death’s suitcase.”

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371. “All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.” Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. “What?” he said. “That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”

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372. “But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.”

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373. “In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I’ve always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That’s my style.”

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374. “For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving that the word ‘dying’ was not synonymous with ‘useless’.”

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375. “The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an eraser.”

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376. “I earned a mater’s degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.”

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377. “It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”

— Mitch Albom

378. “What would you give to remember everything? I have this power. I absorb your memories; when you hear me, you relive them. A first dance. A wedding. The song that played when you got the big news. No other talent gives your.”

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379. “I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.”

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380. “Trees spend all day looking up at God.”

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381. “Children wonder at the world. Parents wonder at their children’s wonder. In so doing, we are all together young.”

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382. “Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy.”

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383. “Don’t lose yourself... inside yourself...”

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384. “It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?”

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385. “Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.” He squeezed my hand gently. I squeezed back harder. And like that carnival contest where you bang a hammer and watch the disk rise up the pole, I could almost see my body heat rise up Morrie’s chest and neck into his cheeks and eyes. He smiled.”

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386. “I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.”

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387. “This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them. It’s what I missed so much when my mother died – what I call your ‘spiritual security’ – knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame.”

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388. “And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too – even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”

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389. “Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”

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390. “In the beginning, there was a question. In the end, the question gets answered. God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it’s all one song – one same, wonderful, human song. I am in love with hope.”

— Mitch Albom

391. “Rum Rosh. It’s in Psalms, the original Hebrew. It means ‘God lifted my head.”

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392. “I don’t know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.”

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393. “You cannot unplay your notes. Time, like music, is indelible that way.”

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394. “The wrongs we do open doors to do right.”

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395. “We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.”

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396. “Talent is a piece of God’s shadow. And under that shadow, human stories intersect.”

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397. “Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance.”

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398. “The Blue Man held out his hand. “Fairness,” he said, “does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”

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399. “How do we say good-bye to you without saying good-bye to apiece of ourselves? Where do we look for you now?”

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400. “You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.”

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