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Tuesdays with Morrie quotes about death
But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?’Because, ‘ Morrie continued, ‘most of us walk around as if we’re sleepwalking. We really don’t experience the world fully, because we’re half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.’And facing death changes all that?’Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.’He sighed. ‘Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
..And because he was still able to move his hands – Morrie always spoke with both hands waving – he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I’m so angry and bitter. But it doesn’t last too long. Then I get up and say, ‘I want to live..’ ‘So far, I’ve been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don’t know. But I’m betting on myself I will.’ Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was my natural fate.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a ‘living funeral’. Each of them spoke and paid tribute.. Some cried. Some laughed. One woman read a poem: ‘My dear and loving cousin.. Your ageless heart as you , love through time, layer on layer, tender sequoia..’ .. And all the heartfelt things we never get to say to those we love, Morrie said that day.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
You live on – in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here…Death ends life, not a relationship.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
.. 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.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Had it not been for “Nightline, ” Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Morrie, ” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?”“You bet, ” Morrie whispered.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie’s time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
But it’s hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I’m suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims… and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don’t know any of these people. But–how can I put this?–I’m almost… drawn to them.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
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