“Now, Nikolas was a happy boy. Well, actually, no. He would have told you he was happy, if you asked him, and… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Let's not forget The Things They Do To Make Themselves Happy That Actually Make Them Miserable. This is an infinite list. It… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“The world THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself that you… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It felt civilised and modern. It felt refined and tantalising, all at once, like a polite collective pre-orgasm.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“He just wanted to live inside a moment of that life with her forever, to pluck it like a flower and press it in… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“That is one of the patterns: when nothing is happening, nothing continues to happen, but after a while the lull becomes too much and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Sa asculti muzica, mi-am dat eu seama, nu era altceva decat placerea de a numara fara sa iti dai seama ca numeri.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Beauty--be not caused," said Emily Dickinson. "It is." In one way she was wrong. The scattering of light over a long distance creates a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
