Top 500 Matt Haig Quotes (2024 Update)
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Matt Haig Quote: “Nora went through her social media. No messages, no comments, no new followers, no friend requests. She was antimatter, with added self-pity.”

201. “Nora went through her social media. No messages, no comments, no new followers, no friend requests. She was antimatter, with added self-pity.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Sip, don’t gulp.”

202. “Sip, don’t gulp.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It made me lonely. And when I say lonely, I mean the kind of loneliness that howls through you like a desert wind. It wasn’t just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.”

203. “It made me lonely. And when I say lonely, I mean the kind of loneliness that howls through you like a desert wind. It wasn’t just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.”

Matt Haig Quote: “And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?”

204. “And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?”

Matt Haig Quote: “I loved her, instantly. Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.”

205. “I loved her, instantly. Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.”

Matt Haig Quote: “One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.”

206. “One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I feel a swell of pride. This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.”

207. “I feel a swell of pride. This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.”

208. “The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The meaning of life. There is none. People search for external values and meaning in a world which not only can’t provide it but is also indifferent to their quest.”

209. “The meaning of life. There is none. People search for external values and meaning in a world which not only can’t provide it but is also indifferent to their quest.”

Matt Haig Quote: “That’s the odd thing about depression and anxiety. It acts like an intense fear of happiness, even as you yourself consciously want that happiness more than anything. So if it catches you smiling, even fake smiling, then – well, that stuff’s just not allowed and you know it, so here comes ten tons of counterbalance.”

210. “That’s the odd thing about depression and anxiety. It acts like an intense fear of happiness, even as you yourself consciously want that happiness more than anything. So if it catches you smiling, even fake smiling, then – well, that stuff’s just not allowed and you know it, so here comes ten tons of counterbalance.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Be the complex elegance of a melting candle. Be a map with 10,000 roads. Be the orange at sunset that outclasses the pink of sunrise. Be the self that dares to be true.”

211. “Be the complex elegance of a melting candle. Be a map with 10,000 roads. Be the orange at sunset that outclasses the pink of sunrise. Be the self that dares to be true.”

Matt Haig Quote: “A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another.”

212. “A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.”

213. “To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity... Love was a way to live forever in a single moment, and it was also a way to see yourself as you had never actually seen yourself, and made you realise – having done so – that this view was a more meaningful one than any of your previous self-perceptions and self-deceptions.”

214. “Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity... Love was a way to live forever in a single moment, and it was also a way to see yourself as you had never actually seen yourself, and made you realise – having done so – that this view was a more meaningful one than any of your previous self-perceptions and self-deceptions.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Words – spoken or written – are what connect us to the world, and so speaking about it to people, and writing about this stuff, helps connect us to each other, and to our true selves.”

215. “Words – spoken or written – are what connect us to the world, and so speaking about it to people, and writing about this stuff, helps connect us to each other, and to our true selves.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We might have to, sometimes, be brave enough to switch the screens off in order to switch ourselves back on. To disconnect in order to reconnect.”

216. “We might have to, sometimes, be brave enough to switch the screens off in order to switch ourselves back on. To disconnect in order to reconnect.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Failure is a trick of the light.”

217. “Failure is a trick of the light.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t compare your actual self to a hypothetical self. Don’t drown in a sea of ‘what ifs’. Don’t clutter your mind by imagining other versions of you, in parallel universes where you made different decisions.”

218. “Don’t compare your actual self to a hypothetical self. Don’t drown in a sea of ‘what ifs’. Don’t clutter your mind by imagining other versions of you, in parallel universes where you made different decisions.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If you failed one test, there was a test to see why. I suppose they loved tests so much because they believed in free will.”

219. “If you failed one test, there was a test to see why. I suppose they loved tests so much because they believed in free will.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.”

220. “Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You reach a certain age – sometimes it’s fifteen, sometimes it’s forty-six – and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn’t working.”

221. “You reach a certain age – sometimes it’s fifteen, sometimes it’s forty-six – and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn’t working.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered.”

222. “Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered.”

Matt Haig Quote: “10. Breathe. Breathe deep and pure and smooth. Concentrate on it. Breathing is the pace you set your life at. It’s the rhythm of the song of you. It’s how to get back to the centre of things. The centre of yourself. When the world wants to take you in every other direction. It was the first thing you learned to do. The most essential and simple thing you do. To be aware of breath is to remember you are alive.”

223. “10. Breathe. Breathe deep and pure and smooth. Concentrate on it. Breathing is the pace you set your life at. It’s the rhythm of the song of you. It’s how to get back to the centre of things. The centre of yourself. When the world wants to take you in every other direction. It was the first thing you learned to do. The most essential and simple thing you do. To be aware of breath is to remember you are alive.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at all. And when I felt nothing I almost became nostalgic for the grief; at least when you felt pain you knew you were still alive.”

224. “I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at all. And when I felt nothing I almost became nostalgic for the grief; at least when you felt pain you knew you were still alive.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I hate depression. I am scared of it. Terrified, in fact. But at the same time, it has made me who I am. And if – for me – it is the price of feeling life, it’s a price always worth paying. I am satisfied just to be.”

225. “I hate depression. I am scared of it. Terrified, in fact. But at the same time, it has made me who I am. And if – for me – it is the price of feeling life, it’s a price always worth paying. I am satisfied just to be.”

Matt Haig Quote: “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.”

226. “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 Quote: “Feeling you have no time doesn’t mean you have no time. Feeling you are ugly doesn’t mean you are ugly. Feeling anxious doesn’t mean you need to be anxious. Feeling you haven’t achieved enough doesn’t mean you haven’t achieved enough. Feeling you lack things doesn’t make you less complete.”

227. “Feeling you have no time doesn’t mean you have no time. Feeling you are ugly doesn’t mean you are ugly. Feeling anxious doesn’t mean you need to be anxious. Feeling you haven’t achieved enough doesn’t mean you haven’t achieved enough. Feeling you lack things doesn’t make you less complete.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really. But on that boat she realised something. She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.”

228. “Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really. But on that boat she realised something. She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.”

Matt Haig Quote: “When you are depressed you feel alone, and that no one is going through quite what you are going through. You are so scared of appearing in any way mad you internalise everything, and you are so scared that people will alienate you further you clam up and don’t speak about it, which is a shame, as speaking about it helps.”

229. “When you are depressed you feel alone, and that no one is going through quite what you are going through. You are so scared of appearing in any way mad you internalise everything, and you are so scared that people will alienate you further you clam up and don’t speak about it, which is a shame, as speaking about it helps.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Listen, emotions have logic. Without emotions humans wouldn’t care for each other, and if they didn’t care for each other, the species would have died out. To care for others is self-preservation. You care for someone and they care for you.”

230. “Listen, emotions have logic. Without emotions humans wouldn’t care for each other, and if they didn’t care for each other, the species would have died out. To care for others is self-preservation. You care for someone and they care for you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I have long convinced myself that the piano is like a drug, seductive and strong, and it can mess you up, it can awaken dead emotions, it can drown you in your lost selves. It is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen.”

231. “I have long convinced myself that the piano is like a drug, seductive and strong, and it can mess you up, it can awaken dead emotions, it can drown you in your lost selves. It is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The progress of humanity seemed to be measured in the distance we placed between ourselves and nature.”

232. “The progress of humanity seemed to be measured in the distance we placed between ourselves and nature.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Change doesn’t just happen by focusing on the place you want to escape. It happens by focusing on where you want to reach.”

233. “Change doesn’t just happen by focusing on the place you want to escape. It happens by focusing on where you want to reach.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human.”

234. “Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I wanted to be dead. No. That’s not quite right. I didn’t want to be dead, I just didn’t want to be alive.”

235. “I wanted to be dead. No. That’s not quite right. I didn’t want to be dead, I just didn’t want to be alive.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. But if it was important enough for David Hume to write that thought down, then maybe it was important enough to aim to do something good. To help preserve life, in all its forms.”

236. “The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. But if it was important enough for David Hume to write that thought down, then maybe it was important enough to aim to do something good. To help preserve life, in all its forms.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Your life will have 25,000 days in it. Make sure you remember some of them.”

237. “Your life will have 25,000 days in it. Make sure you remember some of them.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge.”

238. “Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If there is a way out, a way that isn’t death itself, then the exit route is through words. But rather than leave the mind entirely, words help us leave a mind, and give us the building blocks to build another one, similar but better, nearby to the old one but with firmer foundations, and very often a better view.”

239. “If there is a way out, a way that isn’t death itself, then the exit route is through words. But rather than leave the mind entirely, words help us leave a mind, and give us the building blocks to build another one, similar but better, nearby to the old one but with firmer foundations, and very often a better view.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She laughs. It is the simplest, purest joy on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.”

240. “She laughs. It is the simplest, purest joy on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Words, just sometimes, can set you free.”

241. “Words, just sometimes, can set you free.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Impossible. An old elf swearword.”

242. “Impossible. An old elf swearword.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them. The world shrugs.”

243. “The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them. The world shrugs.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Lincoln is not the only famous leader to have battled depression. Winston Churchill lived with the ‘black dog’ for much of his life too. Watching a fire, he once remarked to a young researcher he was employing: ‘I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed.”

244. “Lincoln is not the only famous leader to have battled depression. Winston Churchill lived with the ‘black dog’ for much of his life too. Watching a fire, he once remarked to a young researcher he was employing: ‘I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Just give yourself one simple reminder that the world is full of wonders. Even if we are at a point in life where we can’t appreciate things, it sometimes helps to remember there are things in this world to enjoy, when we are ready.”

245. “Just give yourself one simple reminder that the world is full of wonders. Even if we are at a point in life where we can’t appreciate things, it sometimes helps to remember there are things in this world to enjoy, when we are ready.”

Matt Haig Quote: “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.”

246. “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 Quote: “It’s okay to let people find you. You don’t have to spread yourself so thin you become invisible. You don’t have to always be the person reaching out. You can sometimes allow yourself to be reached. As the great writer Anne Lamott puts it: “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

247. “It’s okay to let people find you. You don’t have to spread yourself so thin you become invisible. You don’t have to always be the person reaching out. You can sometimes allow yourself to be reached. As the great writer Anne Lamott puts it: “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I had been through no war and yet I related to that feeling of pain contained in every new day, as “Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh.” It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with posttraumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn’t know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Was I that soft? Or was life a kind of war most people didn’t see?”

248. “I had been through no war and yet I related to that feeling of pain contained in every new day, as “Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh.” It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with posttraumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn’t know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Was I that soft? Or was life a kind of war most people didn’t see?”

Matt Haig Quote: “Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don’t expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.”

249. “Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don’t expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We were made from stardust, like everything in the universe, and we – each of us – carried a power inside us. A power that couldn’t be destroyed anymore than the universe could be destroyed.”

250. “We were made from stardust, like everything in the universe, and we – each of us – carried a power inside us. A power that couldn’t be destroyed anymore than the universe could be destroyed.”

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