“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an 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, quote from The Time Keeper
“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Holding on to things only breaks your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“There is a reason God limits man's days.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“No matter how smart she appeared, she was
fragile at her core.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“You had many more years,” he said.
“I didn’t want them.”
“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to
your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”
“What’s that?”
“Hope.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.
And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“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, quote from The Time Keeper
“But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“The length of your days does not belong to you.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
“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, quote from The Time Keeper
“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, quote from The Time Keeper
“Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.”
― Mitch Albom, quote from The Time Keeper
Mitch Albom
Born place: in Passaic, New Jersey, The United States
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“Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!”
― Cornelia Funke, quote from Sangre de tinta
“... je t'emmènerais dans une contrée resplendissante et prospère, au foyer d'une famille aristocratique des lettrés, fastueux domaine où abondent les fleurs et les saules, terroir de la douceur, de richesse et d'honneurs, pour t'installer dans la joie et en toute sécurité.
Cao Xueqin, "Le Rêve dans le pavillon rouge", trad, fr. par Li Tche-Houa, J. Alézaïs, révision par A. D'Hormon, Paris, Gallimard, "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade", 1981, vol. 1, p. 8.”
― Cao Xueqin, quote from A Dream of Red Mansions
“I guess it doesn’t matter how well you think you know someone, there’s always a fear that they’ll abandon you. After all, it’s the people you care about the most who can cut you the deepest.”
― Kristen Zimmer, quote from The Gravity Between Us
“It was pretty cool to have someone around here who didn't like the same things as everybody else.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“Her décor style matches her schizophrenic personality to perfection. A combination of Barbie meets Marilyn Manson. She’s the only person I know who can pull off pink combat boots, black nail polish, and dark black smoky eyeliner with a pink sundress and have it look adorably sexy.”
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