Mitch Albom Quotes

I don't like to dwell on the past.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

I can't really dwell on the past.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

I don't care if someone remembered me. Life is for living and memories for those who we leave behind.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Remembrances last longer than present realities.

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!

The past is dead except for the life you give it

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

I don't talk about the past.

I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

You can't live in nostalgia-land.

I don't live in the past.

There's no sustenance in the past.