Matt Haig

“The problem of politics is the problem of tribes.”

— Matt Haig

“Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form.”

— Matt Haig

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

— Matt Haig

“The point of love was to help you survive.”

— Matt Haig

“Words, just sometimes, can set you free.”

— Matt Haig

The possibility of pain is where love stems from

— Matt Haig

“To read, to seek, to know.”

— Matt Haig

“To talk about memories is to live them a little.”

— Matt Haig

“Don't worry about your abilities. You have the ability to love. That is enough.”

— Matt Haig

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

— Matt Haig

“The problem is, if you study philosophy and stop believing in a meaning you start to need medical help.”

— Matt Haig

“Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.”

— Matt Haig

“She laughs. It is the simplest, purest joy on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.”

— Matt Haig

“It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her.”

— Matt Haig

“No one is ever completely right about anything. Anywhere.”

— Matt Haig

Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.

— Matt Haig

“And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then…

— Matt Haig

“Soseai pe Pamant cu talpici de bebelus, si cu o fericire infinita, apoi aceasta fericire se evapora incetisor, pe masura ce mainile…

— Matt Haig

It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just…

— Matt Haig

“To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that…

— Matt Haig

It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it.…

— Matt Haig

“If beauty on Earth is the same as elsewhere: ideal in that it is tantalizing and unsolvable, creating a delicious kind of…

— Matt Haig

“Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The…

— Matt Haig

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.

— Matt Haig

“She understands enough of what is going on. She understands that he wants to save her, more than anything in the world.…

— Matt Haig

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

— Matt Haig

“Humans, I was discovering, believed they were in control of their own lives, and so they were in awe of questions and…

— Matt Haig

“Umanii faceau mereu lucruri pe care nu la placea sa le faca. De fapt, in conformitate cu cea mai buna estimare a…

— Matt Haig

I suppose the book I really remember loving as a child was one called 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton, about a gang…

— Matt Haig

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

If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we…

— Matt Haig

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or…

— Matt Haig

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

— Matt Haig

“Now, Nikolas was a happy boy. Well, actually, no. He would have told you he was happy, if you asked him, and…

— Matt Haig

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

— Matt Haig

“Adding anxiety to depression is a bit like adding cocaine to alcohol. It presses fast-forward on the whole experience. If you have…

— Matt Haig

“Ei exista, simultan, in doua lumi – lumea aparentelor si lumea adevarului. Firele care conecteaza aceste lumi pot lua multe forme. Atunci…

— Matt Haig

“MEDICATION IS AN incredibly attractive concept. Not just for the person with depression, or the person running a pharmaceutical firm, but for…

— Matt Haig

“There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains…

— Matt Haig

“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