Quotes from Matt Haig

Gerçek bilgelik hiçbir ÅŸey bilmediÄŸini bilmekte yatar. -Sokrates

Maybe to be truly in tune with the modern world means anxiety is inevitable

How can we live in a mad world without going mad ourselves?

three-parts

You have as many lives as you have possibilities. There are lives where you make different choices. And those choices lead to different outcomes. If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story

Mett? is about accepting yourself as you are.

He said that in quantum physics every alternative possibility happens simultaneously. All at once. In the same place. Quantum superposition.

For all his age and intelligence, Hendrich was fundamentally immature. He was a child. (…) we were just old. And that, in cases such as Hendrich, it didn't really matter how many years (…) had passed, because you were always living within the parameters of your personality. No expanse of time or place could change that. You could never escape yourself.

There was no such thing as impossible. I knew that, because I also knew that everything was impossible, and so the only possibilities in life were impossibilities.

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term and found it. 'A load of bullshit.

The impossible, I suppose, happens via living. Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But do I want to live? Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.

La théorie des mondes multiples de la physique quantique pose comme principe qu'il y a un nombre infini d'univers parallèles divergents. A chaque instant de votre vie, vous entrez dans un nouvel univers. A chaque décision que vous prenez.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you', wrote Angelou. Silence is pain. But it is a pain with an exit route. When we can't speak, we can write. When we can't write, we can read. When we can't read, we can listen.

A male human's testicles were the most attractive thing about him, I realized, and vastly unappreciated by humans themselves, who would very often rather look at almost anything else, including smiling faces.

Ä°nsan beyninin dünyaya dair karma??k bilgileri filtreden geçirerek indirgediÄŸini, mesela insan?n bir aÄŸaca bakt???nda sonsuz karma??kl?ktaki say?s?z yaprakla dal? 'aÄŸaç' denen ÅŸey olarak gördüÄŸünü biliyordu. Ä°nsan olmak, dünyay? sürekli indirgeyerek anla??labilir ve basit bir anlat?ya dönüÅŸtürmek demekti.

It is better to let people down than to blow yourself up.

It began to rain again, so she sat there with the blinds open, staring at the drops on the glass.

All of our earthly concerns are quite transient compared to the sky.

Donna grew up with her parents arguing almost continually, and had consequently believed marriage was something that was not only inevitable, but also inevitably miserable.

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

They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep their light alive. If you remember them well enough, they can still guide you, like the shine of long-extinguished stars could guide ships in unfamiliar waters. If you stop mourning them, and start listening to them, they still have the power to change your life. They can, in short, be salvation.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe that was her problem.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

they are born, they make some friends, eat a few meals, they get married or they don't get married, have a child or two, or not, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have sexual intercourse a few times, discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realize they would have done it the same, and then they die.