Mitch Albom Quotes

I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?

I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

One of the things I noticed is that people really change when they realize their expiration date is coming, and they know what it is. Most of us don't: we just hope we can live as long as we can and do as much good as we can.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Life is short and progress is slow.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.