Death Quote by Mitch Albom — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Morrie,” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?”

“Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish”

“Those who sat with him saw his eyes go moist when they spoke about something horrible, or crinkle in delight when they told him a really bad joke. He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing from my baby boomer generation. We are great at small talk: 'What do you do?' 'Where do you live?' But really listening to someone -- without trying to sell them something, pick them up, recruit them, or get some kind of status in return -- how often do we get this anymore?”

“.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.”

“I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.”

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”

“Every suicide is a solution to a problem.”

“Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited to-day; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he knew are our familiar friends--the end from which he fled aghast will surely overtake us also!”

“Being stagnant in a business is the death of a business.”

“We can't be sad for her," she murmured. "Only for ourselves at having to say good-bye.”

“We will die here and trust the meaning of our lives to the next generation.. That is the sole way we can rebel against this cruel world !”