Mitch Albom Quotes
If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
Quotes to Explore
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I really love storytelling.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.
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I have this really big face.
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People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.
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Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
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I'm really more of an executive.
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I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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All anything takes, really, is confidence.
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I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.
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The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
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Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.
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Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes into the work later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.
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If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
