Mitch Albom Quotes

He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer. No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?

It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.

The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.

We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering-no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.