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Life Quotes by Matt Haig

39 Life quotes by Matt Haig

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A book is a map that can guide you when you feel lost and confused. Haig says that depression can act like a sharpened lens, intensifying how you experience life, while the race for more stuff only makes life feel shorter. He also reminds us that thinking about death makes us value every moment.

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“Life is the people who love you.”

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“You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.”

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“It is not the length of life that matters. It’s the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.”

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“Well, what the fuck would an extraterrestrial life form want to come here for?”

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“40 pieces of helpful advice: No. 31 - Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.”

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“All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.”

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“I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough.”

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“Don’t aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.”

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“It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.”

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“I feel the sheer unfathomable marvel that is this strange life we have, here on earth, the seven billion of us, clustered…

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Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning…

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Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important…

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Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing…

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“But we kind of know that turning life into a desperate race for more stuff is only going to shorten it. Not…

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If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest…

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“(T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that…

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“I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am…

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A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back…

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“Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to…

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“I have been in love only once in my life. I suppose that makes me a romantic, in a sense. The idea…

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“Your worth is you. Your worth is your presence. Your worth is right there. Your worth isn't something you earn. Your worth…

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“There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading.…

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Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell…

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“A book is a map … There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way…

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“Human life, I realized, got progressively worse as you got older, by the sound of things. You arrived, with baby feet and…

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“A human life is on average eighty Earth years or around thirthy thousand Earth days. Which means they are born, they make…

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“And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live. You just close your eyes…

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“The world THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with…

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“My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. Moralistic but a devout lover of pleasure…

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“It' hard to explain depression to people who haven’t suffered from it. It is like explaining life on Earth to an alien.…

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Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping…

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“I was not told to provide this document of human life. That was not in my brief. Yet I feel obliged to…

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Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell,…

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I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in…

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“The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness…

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Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a…

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“Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible…

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“There was no such thing as impossible. I knew that, because I also knew that everything was impossible, and so the only…

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“Confine your imagination. Do not lose yourself to dangerous daydreams. Do not sit and ponder and dwell on a life you are…

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“He just wanted to live inside a moment of that life with her forever, to pluck it like a flower and press it in…

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The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

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…

“It’s not you. It’s them. (No, really. It is.)”

“We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a…

“Sa asculti muzica, mi-am dat eu seama, nu era altceva decat placerea de a numara fara sa iti dai seama ca numeri.”

“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…

I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but only short…

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.

A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself…