Matt Haig Quotes
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Matt Haig Famous Quotes & Sayings
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This was jazz music. It was full of the complexity and contradictions that I would soon learn made humans human.
An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.
Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting.
I could hardly breathe, watching her, and didn't even notice it was beginning to rain. I was just mesmerized by her. All eleven trillion cells of her.
Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.
I love you, she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive.
Soon, I told myself, I would understand what the heavily articulated greeting "get off the fucking road you fucking wanker" actually meant.
Stigma is particularly cruel for depressives, because stigma affects thoughts and depression is a disease of thoughts.
Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.
I played an album called Space Oddity by David Bowie, which, in its simple patterned measure of time, was actually quite enjoyable.
But stories aren't always lies. They are things stored in all our imaginations-hence the name stories-and it is the author's job to point them out.
On Earth you have to spend a lot of time traveling in between places, be it on roads or on rail tracks or in careers or relationships.
No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.
To believe in the things we feel at that point is wrong, because those feelings would disappear with food or sleep.
A paradox: The things you don't need to live - books, art, cinema, wine, and so on - are the things you need to live.
What kind of pressure was she talking about? Atmospheric? Gravitational? "Yes," I said. "A lot. Everywhere, there is some kind of pressure.
Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires.
It's dull. It's the dullest life you can imagine. Here, you have pain, and loss, that's the price. But the rewards can be wonderful, Gulliver.
In a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our route to freedom, and to each other'.
How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.
That was the remarkable thing about humans - their ability to shape the path of other species, to change their fundamental nature.
On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.
It is not the length of life that matters. It's the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.
Marriage was a truly alien concept. There probably weren't enough editions of Cosmopolitan on the planet for me to ever understand it.
He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for days to be experienced.
Peanut butter sandwiches go perfectly well with a glass of white wine. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt.
So, as was often the case, a big fear was beaten by a bigger fear. The best way to beat a monster is to find a scarier one.
The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.
I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless.
Ari believed we are all a simulation. Matter is an illusion. Everything is silicon. He could be right. But your emotions? They're solid.
There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.
What was reality? An objective truth? A collective illusion? A majority opinion? The product of historical understanding? A bream?
Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.
(The main advantage of books over life is that they can be redrafted and redrafted, whereas life, alas, is always a first draft.)
One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.
I craved knowledge. I craved facts. I searched for them like lifebuoys in the sea. But statistics are tricky things.
It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.
A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.