Mitch Albom Quotes

Yes," I said, "for the love of God!

When I want a thing, I want it dreadfully.

In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.

Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

First, he demands votes; second, he asks for votes; third, he begs for them; fourth, he weeps for them.

So much comedy comes out of an earnest, deeply rooted need for one thing or another, trying to get it and caring so much that you lose your sense of self-awareness.

I think most people can relate to the feeling of love spilling over into obsession.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.

Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli

Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!

The less my hope, the hotter my love

I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.

The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play.

No. Don't you do this to us.

I realize I waited too long but please don't move on.

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.