Quotes from Matt Haig

I have learned that however strong the craving gets the guilt afterwards will be stronger.

What is legacy but the most empty and mediocre substitute for what we have. Steel and money and fancy concert halls don't give you immortality.

If the madness is collective and the illness is cultural it can be hard to diagnose, let alone treat.

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

A reminder for the tough times One day this will be over. And we will be grateful for life in ways we never felt possible before.

There was an inescapable feeling brewing in the darkness. Envy.

Homo sapiens sabahlar? bir canl?y? öldürebileceÄŸi bilgisiyle uyanan ilkel bir avc?yd? eskiden. Åžimdi ise, sabahlar? bir ÅŸey sat?n alabileceÄŸi bilgisiyle uyan?yordu yaln?zca.

Evolution happens through mistakes.

But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy. We can't tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.

But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other peoples worst enemy. We. can't tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.

If I was religious, I'd say it was God. And as God is probably someone we can't see or comprehend then He – or She – or whichever pronoun God is – becomes an image of someone good we have known in our lives.

Ein Mensch war wie eine Stadt. Ein paar weniger wünschenswerte Aspekte durften nicht den Blick aufs Ganze verstellen. Vielleicht gab es einiges, was man nicht mochte, ein paar zwielichtige Straßen und Vororte, aber wegen der guten Seiten lohne es sich doch. - S. 61

My aunt used to tell me that books are just trees that are having a dream.

Existe la idea de que uno lee para escapar o para encontrarse a sí mismo. En realidad, yo no veo la diferencia. Nos encontramos a nosotros mismos a través del proceso de escapar. No se trata de dónde estamos, sino de adónde queremos ir.

C'è un solo cantuccio dell'universo che uno può esser certo di rendere migliore, e questo è il proprio io.

I am a waste of a carbon footprint, to be honest.

Ser humano consiste en afirmar lo evidente; una y otra vez, hasta el fin de los tiempos.

Ga vol vertrouwen je dromen achterna,' had Thoreau gezegd. 'Leef het leven dat je je hebt voorgenomen.

Se solo riuscissimo a trovare un modo per fermare il tempo. È su questo che dovremmo concentrarci. Sa, quando un attimo di felicità passa davanti. Potremmo lanciare la rete, catturarlo come una farfalla e tenerlo con noi per sempre.

Possibility is everything that has ever happened. The purpose of science is to find out where the limits of possibility end. When we have achieved that — and we shall — there will be no more magic, no more superstition, there will just be what is. Once it was impossible that this globe we are on wasn't flat. It is not for science — and certainly not for medicine — to flatter our expectations of Nature. Quite the opposite.

And you can see her beauty. If beauty on Earth is the same as elsewhere: ideal in that it is tantalizing and unsolvable, creating a delicious kind of confusion.

Maybe she was just really crap at it. At life.

I don't like it." "Why?" "Because it is too painful." "Why is it painful?" "Because it's real.

For centuries I have thought all my despair is grief. But people get over grief. They get over even the most serious grief in a matter of years. If not get over then at least live beside. And the way they do this is by investing in other people, through friendship, through family, through teaching, through love. I have been approaching this realisation for some time now.