Quotes by Mitch Albom

“Its not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. Its part of the deal we made.”

“Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We dont see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into every...”

“It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobodys out there.”

“Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they cant expl...”

“War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.”

“Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuri...”

“Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in...”

“You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes."Do they ever make more sense?"No.”

“Man invents nothing God did not create first.”

“Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I ...”

“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.”

“Your father was no longer a young man. he was already in his fifties.'Fifty-six,' Eddie said blankly.Fifty-six,' the old woman repeated. 'His body had been weakened, the ocean had left him vulnerab...”

“Doubt is how you find God”

“A funeral is no place for secrets.”

“If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.”

“when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, wi...”

“You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship”

“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.”

“It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones...”

“You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You cant trade them in. You cant lie to them. You cant run two at once, substituting back and forth.Sticking with your family is ...”