Five People You Meet In Heaven Quotes

#1. Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.

John Burnham Schwartz

#2. 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

#3. I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.

Missy Peregrym

#4. I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

Edmund White

#5. No one gets left behind, remember?

Mitch Albom

#6. I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is no point in sleeping.

Robert M. Pirsig

#7. There are some people who have a low tolerance for criticism. I'm not one of those people.

Martin Shkreli

#8. There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards.

Anthony Trollope

#9. It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

Paul Gauguin

#10. In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

Steve Albini

#11. I've found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like 'real people.'

MaryJanice Davidson

#12. No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.

Roberto Bolano

#13. Is the prospect of magic any more outrageous than a dragon train?

Victor Kloss

#14. Courage is the vision that lets us see ourselves in the mirror of our fears.

Debasish Mridha

#15. She was so pale she could have been moonlight.

Thylias Moss

#16. In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.

Thomas Goodwin

#17. I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Mitch Albom