A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell,… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“There was no such thing as impossible. I knew that, because I also knew that everything was impossible, and so the only… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“But we kind of know that turning life into a desperate race for more stuff is only going to shorten it. Not… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Well, what the fuck would an extraterrestrial life form want to come here for?” — 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
“There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Confine your imagination. Do not lose yourself to dangerous daydreams. Do not sit and ponder and dwell on a life you are… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“A book is a map .... There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I feel the sheer unfathomable marvel that is this strange life we have, here on earth, the seven billion of us, clustered… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I was not told to provide this document of human life. That was not in my brief. Yet I feel obliged to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It' hard to explain depression to people who haven’t suffered from it. It is like explaining life on Earth to an alien.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping… — 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
“I have been in love only once in my life. I suppose that makes me a romantic, in a sense. The idea… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“A human life is on average eighty Earth years or around thirthy thousand Earth days. Which means they are born, they make… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It is not the length of life that matters. It’s the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.” — 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
“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
