Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. — Matt Haig Comedy Copy Share Image
Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing. — Matt Haig Beauty Copy Share Image
“Unlike a book or a film depression doesn’t have to be about something.” — Matt Haig Book Copy Share Image
“Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.” — Matt Haig Emotion Copy Share Image
“Dogs are geniuses of loyalty. And that is a good kind of genius to have.” — Matt Haig Animal Copy Share Image
The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Being a parent is standing on a shore and watching her child in a vulnerable craft, heading out over deeper and deeper… — Matt Haig Children Copy Share Image
I'm not anti-progress, obviously, but I just think progress needs to be a broader thing than just the technology we can create;… — Matt Haig Awareness Copy Share Image
“It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky, but—if that is the metaphor—you are the sky. You were there before… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the… — Matt Haig Mind Copy Share Image
“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little… — Matt Haig Books Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like… — Matt Haig Brain Copy Share Image
“As a species, we love to divide things up. We draw a straight line in a map between the Atlantic and Indian… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I have been in love only once in my life. I suppose that makes me a romantic, in a sense. The idea… — Matt Haig Life Copy Share Image
“Another strange thing was how absence had intensified my feelings for her. How I craved the sweet everyday reality of just being… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other… — Matt Haig Depression Copy Share Image
“It made me lonely. And when I say lonely, I mean the kind of loneliness that howls through you like a desert… — Matt Haig Loneliness Copy Share Image
“To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful… — Matt Haig Beauty Copy Share Image
“We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter… — Matt Haig Fear Copy Share Image
“One of the brighter humans, a German-born theoretical physicist called Albert Einstein, explained relativity to dimmer members of his species by telling… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
We often joke about men moaning about being ill, whether it's man flu or anything else. We want them to be silent… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live. You just close your eyes… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. Moralistic but a devout lover of pleasure… — Matt Haig Happiness Copy Share Image
“He has spent weeks on the pristine, frosty shore of Lake Baikal in Siberia. He has drunk himself stupid in the fairy-tale… — Matt Haig Buenos aires Copy Share Image
“And it has stayed there, calmly in its spot, growing slowly, producing leaves, losing leaves, producing more, as those mammoths became extinct,… — Matt Haig Flower Copy Share Image
“Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But… — Matt Haig Humans Copy Share Image
“That was four people right there who loved me. I wished like mad, in that moment, that I had no one at… — Matt Haig Love Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry," I say. "About being a bit odd sometimes, at school." Camille shakes her head. "You really have to stop saying… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Human life, I realized, got progressively worse as you got older, by the sound of things. You arrived, with baby feet and… — Matt Haig Happiness Copy Share Image
