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Matt Haig is an English novelist and journalist. He has written both fiction and non-fiction for children and adults, often in the speculative fiction genre.



Wikipedia  

✵ 3. July 1975  •  Other names Метт Хейґ
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Works

Reasons to Stay Alive
The Radleys
The Radleys
Matt Haig
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Famous Matt Haig Quotes

“Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Variant: So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”
“Pretty much.
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“An impossibility is just a possibility you don’t understand yet”

Matt Haig

Source: A Boy Called Christmas

“I am you and you are me. We are alone, but not alone. We are trapped by time, but also infinite. Made of flesh, but also stars.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig Quotes about life

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

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

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

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“Life is waiting for you. You might be stuck here for a while, but the world isn’t going anywhere. Hang on in there if you can. Life is always worth it.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig Quotes about people

“If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. You are walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.”

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

Matt Haig Quotes

“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.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.”

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Variant: There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference.
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.”

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“Advice for a human

86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.”

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.”

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

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

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

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

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.”

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“The possibility of pain is where love stems from”

Matt Haig

Source: The Humans

“As civilisation advances, so does indifference.”

Matt Haig

The Humans

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