Mitch Albom Quotes

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.

When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.

Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step

I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

I am just at tragedy right now.