“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Your father was no longer a young man. he was already in his fifties.' Fifty-six,' Eddie said blankly. Fifty-six,' the old woman… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? "It is because the human spirit… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look -… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Everybody knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently,’ Morrie said. ‘So we… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“How can I—how can any of us—let you go? You are woven through us, from birth to death. You educated me, married… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“tapes, like photographs and videos, are [nothing more than] a desperate attempt to steal something from death's suitcase.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made. Everything that gets born, dies. As long as we… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“If the only thing wrong with Moses is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with Jesus is that he's not yours;… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually, they're just… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
