Quotes from Matt Haig

Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfect intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries, but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

Nu pedepsesti pe nimeni in afara de tine daca tii ura inauntrul tau. Ceilalti sunt ceilalti. Tu esti tu.

you will be preserved from death.

It was a kind of laugh that made me wish there was no air for those manic waves to travel on and reach my ears.

It just shows you, doesn't it?' 'Shows me what?' 'Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest.

Even these bad experiences are serving a purpose, don't you see?

Dar e mereu bine sa stim ce minunate ar parea atatea lucruri din viata noastra daca ar deveni rare.

se la nostra ansia è in parte un prodotto della cultura, allora possiamo modificarla cambiando le nostre reazioni nei confronti di quella stessa cultura.

Well, I'm thinking about how life is so miraculous, none of it really deserves the title 'reality.' 

Compare my life to the lives of other people.

There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains aspects of every other. Yes. It is clear. In those moments that burst alive the present last for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be? The future is you.

Cerul nu incepe deasupra noastra. Nu exista un punct de inceput pentru cer. Noi traim in cer.

But you can be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exiting" "Yes I suppose it is" "A whole life in front of you" "A whole life" "You could do anything, live anywhere

the west. 'Trouble doesn't always have to be caused. It's sometimes already there.

mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness

And the thing you need to realise is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn't over if there is a single pawn still on the board. If one side is down to a pawn and a king, and the other side has every player, there is still a game.

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.

We are shaped more by our failures than our successes (paraphrase)

And that had led to them talking about social media – he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

She looks at me and smiles in that brisk efficient way. A modern professional smile. the kind of smile that never existed before, say, the telephone.

You can always tell if someone is kind because kindness is the sparkle inside their eyes.

I read news websites—another distraction—and my mind couldn't take it. The knowledge of so much suffering in the world didn't help put my pain in perspective. It just made me feel powerless. And pathetic that my invisible woes were so paralyzing when there were so many visible woes in the world. My despair intensified. So I decided to do something. I disconnected.