Mitch Albom Quotes

I think that the older I get, the more I play, you realise when it's your time.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

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.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.

Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.

Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.