Matt Haig

“If someone loves you, let them. Believe in that love. Live for them, even when you feel there is no point.”

— 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

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

— Matt Haig

“I unclip the lead from Abraham's collar and he stays by my side and looks up at me, confused, as if perplexed…

— Matt Haig

You can't just stop technological progress. Even if one country stops researching artificial intelligence, some other countries will continue to do it.…

— Matt Haig

“Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet. Or the electric keyboard.…

— Matt Haig

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be…

— Matt Haig

“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

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the…

— Matt Haig

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

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one…

— Matt Haig

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason…

— Matt Haig

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

— Matt Haig

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

— Matt Haig

To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all…

— Matt Haig

“Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.”

— Matt Haig

I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like…

— Matt Haig

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

— Matt Haig

To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'

— Matt Haig

“And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I…

— Matt Haig

However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you…

— Matt Haig

In an age of never-ending health fads, it's comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activities you can do has existed…

— Matt Haig

“Places don't matter to people any more. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days.…

— Matt Haig

“There are as many versions of a book as there are readers.”

— Matt Haig

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

— Matt Haig