“Tuesdays with Morrie” quotes

“- Morrie Schwartz: My father was afraid of love. He couldn't give it and he couldn't receive it either. Maybe that's worse.
- Mitch Albom: Morrie, Morrie, we should stop.
- Morrie Schwartz: Not letting ourselves be loved because we're too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz
Hank Azaria - Mitch Albom

“Dying is just one thing to be sad about. Living unhappily, that's another matter.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“I'd have a lovely breakfast: Sweet rolls and tea. Then a good swim. I'd ask my friends for lunch, a great lunch. You know, but... A salad or something simple. And then we'd take a walk in a park... with trees, so we could watch the birds. And we'd talk about how much we meant to each other. And for dinner, I'd take 'em to a place that had great...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

Another wave says to him, "Why do you look so sad?". And the little waves says, "Because we're gonna crash. All us waves are gonna be nothin', don't ya understand?". And the other wave says, "You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean".

Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“Fantasy is useful. You can learn from it.”
Hank Azaria - Mitch Albom

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“Have you ever had a special teacher? One who taught you things you may not understand, but who never gives up? Who knows the really tough lessons take a lifetime to learn? The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week on Tuesdays. The subject was the meaning of life.”
Hank Azaria - Mitch Albom

“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

- Morrie Schwartz: Yes, it scares you. All this does. Everything we're talking about... death, dying.
- Mitch Albom: There is a reason why people don't talk about these things.
- Morrie Schwartz: Hmm?
- Mitch Albom: To spare people's feelings.
- Morrie Schwartz: "To spare people's feel..." I never have understood that. How can you spare... (continue)(continue reading)
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz
Hank Azaria - Mitch Albom

“When you're in bed, you're dead.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“Usually in the morning, you know, before everybody gets up, I get so angry, so bitter. Just, what the hell did I ever do to deserve this? Where's the fairness? I cry and I rage. I mourn. And then I detach. It's over; that's it; all over. No more. I just look back on how I've been feeling and I say, well, that's self-pity and that's enough of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“When we're infants, we need others to survive. When we're dying, we need others to survive. But here's the secret. In between, we need others even more.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

Sometimes I see myself dancing, and I think... "Wow! Oh, boy! I don't have ALS after all. It's a big mistake. It's all part of a lovely fantasy". But just for a minute.
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“If we accept the fact that we can die at anytime we lead our lives differently.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“You know anything about this disease that I've got here? This Lou Gehrig's disease? It melts ya like a candle, you know? In my case, from the bottom up.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz