Mitch Albom: Quotes about time

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: "No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

Thinking , Time

“She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Variant: When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
Source: For One More Day

Time , Heart

“Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad…”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People , Sadness , Smile , Cars

“Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Thinking , Time

“I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle.. the nights i can't remember.. the mornings i slept thru.. all the time spent running from myself.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Time , Night

“She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.
And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

Hope , Time

“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

Time , Future , Parting

“Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

People , Time

“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

Fear , Suffering , Time

“Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

Life , Time

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.”

Mitch Albom book The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Life , Learning , Time

“Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

Time

“When hope is gone, time is punishment.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

Hope , Time

“when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Stupidity , Way , Time

“Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

Understanding , Time

“There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Life , People , Understanding , Time