Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.”

— Mitch Albom

402. “But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”

— Mitch Albom

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403. “She had a bottomless well of love for me.”

— Mitch Albom

404. “My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.”

— Mitch Albom

405. “There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.”

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406. “I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness – but it is Morrie’s softness that draws me, and because he doesn’t look at me as a kid trying to be something more than I am, I relax.”

— Mitch Albom

407. “Remember this, Francisco,” he said. “The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.”

— Mitch Albom

408. “Secrets. We think by keeping them, we’re controlling things, but all the while, they’re controlling us.”

— Mitch Albom

409. “It is 1979, a basketball game in the Brandeis gym. The team is doing well, and the student section begins a chant, “We’re number one! We’re number one!” Morrie is sitting nearby. He is puzzled by the cheer. At one point, in the midst of “We’re number one!” he rises and yells, “What’s wrong with being number two?” The students look at him. They stop chanting. He sits down, smiling and triumphant.”

— Mitch Albom

410. “I worked because I could control it.”

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411. “There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.”

— Mitch Albom

412. “You don’t miss things. You miss people.”

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413. “His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look – until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains.”

— Mitch Albom

414. “Do not cry for losing blood. Not for something you love.”

— Mitch Albom

415. “It is no coincidence that the words ‘trying’ and ‘dying’ are only a few letters apart.”

— Mitch Albom

416. “Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.”

— Mitch Albom

417. “What in life can love not penetrate?”

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418. “That’s how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.”

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419. “As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.”

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420. “Before you measure the years, you measure the days.”

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421. “Never tell a child that something it’s too hard.”

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422. “Mitch, that’s what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow.”

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423. “Yes, I said, but if aging were so valuable, why do people always say, “Oh, if I were young again.” You never hear people say, “I wish I were sixty-five.” He smiled. “You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven’t found meaning. Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until sixty-five.”

— Mitch Albom

424. “I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of memory.”

— Mitch Albom

425. “People are only mean when they’re threatened and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about loosing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.”

— Mitch Albom

426. “Loyalty ruled this woman’s soul, but loyalty needs a partner.”

— Mitch Albom

427. “There is a reason God limits man’s days.”

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428. “At I Am My Brother’s Keeper, there were no dues, no drives, no singles nights. Membership grew the old-fashioned way: a desperate need for God.”

— Mitch Albom

429. “Have you ever known a man of faith? Did you run the other way? If so, stop running. Maybe sit for a minute. For a glass of ice water. For a plate of corn bread. You may find there is something beautiful to learn, and it doesn’t bite you and it doesn’t weaken you, it only proves a divine spark lies inside each of us, and that spark may one day save the world.”

— Mitch Albom

430. “But the poor kids today, either they’re too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship, or they rush into marriage and then six months later, they get divorced. They don’t know what they want in a partner. They don’t know who they are themselves-so how can they know who they’re marrying?”

— Mitch Albom

431. “Just because you see things straight doesn’t mean you see them in time.”

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432. “Time passed. Like flakes shaken in a snow globe, the lives of those involved in the tragedy settled slowly to the ground, not in the same spots but in new pockets of peace.”

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433. “I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I was trying to be hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We don’t realize who else we punish while we’re punishing ourselves.”

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434. “I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck.”

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435. “The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one .”

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436. “I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.”

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437. “Don’t be sorry. You’re alive.”

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438. “No life is a waste .”

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439. “You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.”

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440. “Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.”

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441. “There was a sermon where he brought a squash and a piece of wood, then slammed each with a knife to show that things which grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.”

— Mitch Albom

442. “But the world does not cater to our timing.”

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443. “Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.”

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444. “They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected every day.”

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445. “Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.”

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446. “Secrets tear you apart.”

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447. “There’s no such thing as a nobody. And there are no mistakes.”

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448. “Once he could read, all knowledge was within reach.”

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449. “Do you understand? Why we’re here? This is not your heaven. It’s mine.”

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450. “I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation.”

— Mitch Albom