Top 500 Mitch Albom Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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.”

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

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

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

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406. “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.”

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407. “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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408. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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414. “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.”

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415. “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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416. “It’s amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.”

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417. “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.”

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418. “No life is a waste .”

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

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420. “Don’t be sorry. You’re alive.”

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

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422. “We all know how to be a child.”

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423. “Secrets tear you apart.”

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

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425. “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?”

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

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

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428. “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.”

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429. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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437. “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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438. “Time,” the Captain said, “is not what you think.” He sat down next to Eddie. “Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”

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439. “There is life after this life.”

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440. “There are moments on earth when the Lord smiles at the unexpected sweetness of His creation.”

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

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

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443. “Finally, on the fourth of November, when those he loved had left the room just for a moment – to grab coffee in the kitchen, the first time none of them were with him since the coma began – Morrie stopped breathing.”

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

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445. “But man invents nothing God did not create first.”

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446. “It’s a quiet theft, how time lures people away.”

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447. “And, as is usually the fate with bands, most of them will break up – through distance, differences, divorce, or death.”

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448. “All lonely roads lead back to music. I embrace you. I forgive you. I will never leave you.”

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449. “Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.”

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450. “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. We all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”

— Mitch Albom