Mitch Albom Quotes

When people don’t believe in something, they’re lost.

Sunflowers waiting for the sunshine. Violets just waiting for dew. Bees just waiting for honey And honey, I’m just waiting for you!

The carnivals gave me my names, Edward. Sometimes I was the Blue Man of the North Pole, or the Blue Man of Algeria, or the Blue Man of New Zealand. I had never been to any of these places, of course,...

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.

I believe, as the Reb once told me, that, with a little faith, people can fix things, and they truly can change, because at that moment, you could not believe otherwise.

This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.

This is how talents weave from generation to generation, how the shadow stretches, and how an artist born nearly a hundred years earlier begins to fill the soul of a child who shares his name.

Man rarely knows his own power, the old man said.

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the wo...

Religion? Government? Are we not loyalto such things, sometimes to the death?Eddie shrugged.Better, she said, to be loyal to one another.

It’s funny, Lorraine said now, as the scene appeared in front of them. You always wonder about your funeral. How big? Who’ll show up? In the end it’s meaningless. You realize, once you die, that a fun...

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand—even in dreams. Just

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

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

It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. He finally whispered, We also need to forgive ourselves.

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...

And that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.

He ran down the heart of the old midway, where the weight guessers, fortune-tellers, and dancing gypsies had once worked. He lowered his chin and held his arms out like a glider, and every few steps h...