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Quotes About Life

Albert Camus said, "There is no love of life without despair of life.
~ Matt Haig
But because of that luck, we need to cherish this life we have. And if we can not only feel lucky but also other things—calm, happy, healthy—then why not? Why not know what the world can do to us? Because that knowledge can help us.
~ Matt Haig
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
~ Matt Haig
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.
~ Matt Haig
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.
~ Matt Haig
An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us
~ Matt Haig
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.
~ Matt Haig
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.
~ Matt Haig
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.
~ Matt Haig
That it will never come again, Is what makes life so sweet. —EMILY DICKINSON
~ Matt Haig
so every present moment is paying for a future one.
~ Matt Haig
Words are seeds. Language is a way back to life. And it is sometimes the most vital comfort we have.
~ Matt Haig
I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.
~ Matt Haig
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.
~ Matt Haig
Åžok edici gerçek o anda, nihayet, zihninde netleÅŸti; Nora ölmek istemiyordu.
~ Matt Haig
Each twig has travelled only one journey. But there are still other twigs. And there are also other todays. Other lives that would have been different if you'd taken different directions earlier in your life. This is a tree of life.
~ Matt Haig
The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil – rich, fertile soil. She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.
~ Matt Haig
Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living. And if she was to find a life truly worth living, she realized she would have to cast a wider net. Mrs. Elm was right. The game wasn't over. No player should give up if there were pieces still left on the board.
~ Matt Haig
Love is where you find the meaning.
~ Matt Haig
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath
~ Matt Haig
While the Midnight Library stands, Nora, you will be preserved from death. Now, you have to decide how you want to live.
~ Matt Haig
And death only happens to people who have been living. There were infinitely more people who had never been alive. I wanted to be one of those people.
~ Matt Haig
Life is "understood backward; but it must be lived forward" (Søren Kierkegaard)
~ Matt Haig
At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. [...] In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of living. (p.195)
~ Matt Haig