“All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly. Over and over, until the end of time.” — 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
“Humans, I was discovering, believed they were in control of their own lives, and so they were in awe of questions and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“... a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called ‘tree’.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in… — 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
