Mitch Albom Quotes

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.

I think things just tend to fall into place… if you let them.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

Men are immortal till their work is done.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.