Mitch Albom Quotes

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.

I am sorry I could not see my father.

I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.

I think about my mom every day.

I wish if I could have achieved more success in my life earlier when my mom could see that happen, she could have seen those movies, could see the success rate that happened after I lost her.

It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do note weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable.

There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.