Mitch Albom Quotes

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

You just always have to be ready. You never know when your number is going to be called.

I'm not fixated on death but I know tomorrows are not guaranteed.

We are all going to die one day. Everything else, my friend, I am not sure.

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, forget it.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

You can still die when the sun is shining.

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!

What if this present were the world's last night?

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.

Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.