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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.”

251. “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: “I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad.”

252. “I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It’s always best to live it as yourself.”

253. “Don’t do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It’s always best to live it as yourself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Other animals don’t have progress, they say. But the human mind itself doesn’t progress. We stay the same glorified chimpanzees, just with ever bigger weapons. We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mass of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we keep trying to separate ourselves from the universe we live in, to give ourselves a meaning above that of a tree or a rock or a cat or a turtle.”

254. “Other animals don’t have progress, they say. But the human mind itself doesn’t progress. We stay the same glorified chimpanzees, just with ever bigger weapons. We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mass of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we keep trying to separate ourselves from the universe we live in, to give ourselves a meaning above that of a tree or a rock or a cat or a turtle.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Be less robot, more human. Be more imperfect. Evolution happens through mistakes.”

255. “Be less robot, more human. Be more imperfect. Evolution happens through mistakes.”

Matt Haig Quote: “When anger trawls the internet, Looking for a hook; It’s time to disconnect, And go and read a book.”

256. “When anger trawls the internet, Looking for a hook; It’s time to disconnect, And go and read a book.”

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.”

257. “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: “Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else.”

258. “Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else.”

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

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

Matt Haig Quote: “Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or think we do. It’s a song we’ve heard.”

260. “Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or think we do. It’s a song we’ve heard.”

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.”

261. “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: “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.”

262. “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: “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.”

263. “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: “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.”

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

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

Matt Haig Quote: “I have to admit that humans waste a lot of their time – almost all of it – with hypothetical stuff. I could be rich. I could be famous. I could have been hit by that bus. I could have been born with fewer moles and bigger breasts. I could have spent more of my youth learning foreign languages. They must exercise the conditional tense more than any other known life form.”

266. “I have to admit that humans waste a lot of their time – almost all of it – with hypothetical stuff. I could be rich. I could be famous. I could have been hit by that bus. I could have been born with fewer moles and bigger breasts. I could have spent more of my youth learning foreign languages. They must exercise the conditional tense more than any other known life form.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn’t this objective unchangeable thing called ‘The World’. No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds. We read it in our own way. But also: we can, to a degree, choose what to read. We have to work out what about the world makes us feel sad or scared or confused or ill or calm or happy.”

267. “The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn’t this objective unchangeable thing called ‘The World’. No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds. We read it in our own way. But also: we can, to a degree, choose what to read. We have to work out what about the world makes us feel sad or scared or confused or ill or calm or happy.”

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.”

268. “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: “Read poetry. Especially poetry by Emily Dickinson. It might save you. Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.”

269. “Read poetry. Especially poetry by Emily Dickinson. It might save you. Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.”

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

270. “Impossible. An old elf swearword.”

Matt Haig Quote: “As a black hole forms it creates an immense gamma-ray burst, blinding whole galaxies with light and destroying millions of worlds. You could disappear at any second. This one. Or this one. Or this one. Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”

271. “As a black hole forms it creates an immense gamma-ray burst, blinding whole galaxies with light and destroying millions of worlds. You could disappear at any second. This one. Or this one. Or this one. Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”

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.”

272. “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: “And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live.”

273. “And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It’s such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be.’ – Daisy Ridley, on why she quit Instagram.”

274. “It’s such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be.’ – Daisy Ridley, on why she quit Instagram.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don’t wish for it to end, or for it to never end.”

275. “Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don’t wish for it to end, or for it to never end.”

Matt Haig Quote: “But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”

276. “But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She gave me peace just by looking at her, which might explain why I looked at her for too long, and with too much intensity in my eyes. The way people never look at people anymore. I wanted her in every sense.”

277. “She gave me peace just by looking at her, which might explain why I looked at her for too long, and with too much intensity in my eyes. The way people never look at people anymore. I wanted her in every sense.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Aim not to get more stuff done. Aim to have less stuff to do. Be a work minimalist. Minimalism is about doing more with less. So much of working life seems to be about doing less with more. Activity isn’t always the same as achievement.”

278. “Aim not to get more stuff done. Aim to have less stuff to do. Be a work minimalist. Minimalism is about doing more with less. So much of working life seems to be about doing less with more. Activity isn’t always the same as achievement.”

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?”

279. “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.”

280. “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.”

281. “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.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She was the stars and the heavens and the oceans. There was nothing but that single fragment of time, and this bud of love we had planted inside it. And then, at some point after it started, the kiss ended, and I stroked her hair, and the church bells rang in the distance and everything in the world was in alignment.”

282. “She was the stars and the heavens and the oceans. There was nothing but that single fragment of time, and this bud of love we had planted inside it. And then, at some point after it started, the kiss ended, and I stroked her hair, and the church bells rang in the distance and everything in the world was in alignment.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Blood doesn’t satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.”

283. “Blood doesn’t satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn’t being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.”

284. “Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn’t being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.”

285. “Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can’t escape from. It is a switch to another language. The kiss was an act of defiance, maybe of war. You can’t touch us, is what the kiss said.”

286. “Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can’t escape from. It is a switch to another language. The kiss was an act of defiance, maybe of war. You can’t touch us, is what the kiss said.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Catholicism, I discovered, was a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin and guilt.”

287. “Catholicism, I discovered, was a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin and guilt.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There is a darkness that fringes everything. It is a most horrid ecstasy.′ And I felt the horror of her horror. That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.”

288. “There is a darkness that fringes everything. It is a most horrid ecstasy.′ And I felt the horror of her horror. That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I have been in love only once in my life. I suppose that makes me a romantic, in a sense. The idea that you have one true love, that no one else will compare after they have gone. It’s a sweet idea, but the reality is terror itself. To be faced with all those lonely years after. To exist when the point of you has gone.”

289. “I have been in love only once in my life. I suppose that makes me a romantic, in a sense. The idea that you have one true love, that no one else will compare after they have gone. It’s a sweet idea, but the reality is terror itself. To be faced with all those lonely years after. To exist when the point of you has gone.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.”

290. “I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There are things I have experienced I will never again be able to experience for the first time: love, a kiss, Tchaikovsky, a Tahitian sunset, jazz, a hot dog, a Bloody Mary. That is the nature of things. History was – is – a one-day street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don’t always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.”

291. “There are things I have experienced I will never again be able to experience for the first time: love, a kiss, Tchaikovsky, a Tahitian sunset, jazz, a hot dog, a Bloody Mary. That is the nature of things. History was – is – a one-day street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don’t always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You make the wrong decision in the present and it haunts you, just as the Treaty of Versaillles in nineteen nineteen sowed the ground for Hitler to take power in nineteen thirty-three, so every present moment is paying for a future one. Just one wrong turn can get you very lost. What you do in the present stays with you. It comes back. You don’t get away with anything.”

292. “You make the wrong decision in the present and it haunts you, just as the Treaty of Versaillles in nineteen nineteen sowed the ground for Hitler to take power in nineteen thirty-three, so every present moment is paying for a future one. Just one wrong turn can get you very lost. What you do in the present stays with you. It comes back. You don’t get away with anything.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”

293. “To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”

Matt Haig Quote: “That is the whole thing with the future. You don’t know. At some point you have to accept that you don’t know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.”

294. “That is the whole thing with the future. You don’t know. At some point you have to accept that you don’t know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. You don’t need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.”

295. “To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. You don’t need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.”

Matt Haig Quote: “That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.”

296. “That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident. So what should we do? Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation.”

297. “You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident. So what should we do? Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation.”

Matt Haig Quote: “In those moments that burst alive the present lasts forever, and I know there are many more presents to live.”

298. “In those moments that burst alive the present lasts forever, and I know there are many more presents to live.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It is all right to want something – but wanting is also lacking. That is what ‘want’ means. So we have to be careful of our wants and watch that they don’t cause too many holes inside us, otherwise happiness will drip through us like water through a leaky bucket.”

299. “It is all right to want something – but wanting is also lacking. That is what ‘want’ means. So we have to be careful of our wants and watch that they don’t cause too many holes inside us, otherwise happiness will drip through us like water through a leaky bucket.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.”

300. “I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.”

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