Top 500 Matt Haig Quotes (2024 Update)
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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.”

301. “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: “A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.”

302. “A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Sadness seemed to me like a disease, and I worried it was contagious.”

303. “Sadness seemed to me like a disease, and I worried it was contagious.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The way out is never through yourself.”

304. “The way out is never through yourself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “No two moralities match. Accept different shapes, so long as they aren’t sharp enough to hurt.”

305. “No two moralities match. Accept different shapes, so long as they aren’t sharp enough to hurt.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t worry about being angry. Worry when being angry becomes impossible. Because then you have been consumed.”

306. “Don’t worry about being angry. Worry when being angry becomes impossible. Because then you have been consumed.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I don’t think your problem was stage fright. Or wedding fright. I think your problem was life fright.”

307. “I don’t think your problem was stage fright. Or wedding fright. I think your problem was life fright.”

Matt Haig Quote: “So, as was often the case, a big fear was beaten by a bigger fear. The best way to beat a monster is to find a scarier one.”

308. “So, as was often the case, a big fear was beaten by a bigger fear. The best way to beat a monster is to find a scarier one.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If God exists, what is He but a mathematician?”

309. “If God exists, what is He but a mathematician?”

Matt Haig Quote: “Illness has a lot to teach wellness. But when I am ill I forget these things. The trick is to keep hold of that knowledge. To turn recovery into prevention. To live how I live when I am ill, without being ill.”

310. “Illness has a lot to teach wellness. But when I am ill I forget these things. The trick is to keep hold of that knowledge. To turn recovery into prevention. To live how I live when I am ill, without being ill.”

Matt Haig Quote: “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.”

311. “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: “Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.”

312. “Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.’ – Sylvia Plath.”

313. “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.’ – Sylvia Plath.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The hardest dream of all is the dream of not being tormented by our unlived dreams. To cope with and accept unfulfillment as a natural human condition. To be complete in our incompleteness. To be free from the shackles of memory, and ambition, to be free from comparison to other people and other hypothetical selves, and to meet the moment without any other agenda, to exist as freely as time itself.”

314. “The hardest dream of all is the dream of not being tormented by our unlived dreams. To cope with and accept unfulfillment as a natural human condition. To be complete in our incompleteness. To be free from the shackles of memory, and ambition, to be free from comparison to other people and other hypothetical selves, and to meet the moment without any other agenda, to exist as freely as time itself.”

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.”

315. “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: “Imagine all the time we had was bottled up, like wine. and handed over to us. How would we make that bottle last? By sipping slowly, appreciating the taste, or by gulping?”

316. “Imagine all the time we had was bottled up, like wine. and handed over to us. How would we make that bottle last? By sipping slowly, appreciating the taste, or by gulping?”

Matt Haig Quote: “The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness.”

317. “The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Technology won’t save humankind. Humans will.”

318. “Technology won’t save humankind. Humans will.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.”

319. “Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.”

Matt Haig Quote: “A sore throat doesn’t become less sore simply because you’ve felt it before.”

320. “A sore throat doesn’t become less sore simply because you’ve felt it before.”

Matt Haig Quote: “One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it. There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrorized.”

321. “One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it. There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrorized.”

Matt Haig Quote: “From the outside a person sees your physical form, sees that you are a unified mass of atoms and cells. Yet inside you feel like a Big Bang has happened. You feel lost, disintegrated, spread across the universe amid infinite dark space.”

322. “From the outside a person sees your physical form, sees that you are a unified mass of atoms and cells. Yet inside you feel like a Big Bang has happened. You feel lost, disintegrated, spread across the universe amid infinite dark space.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn’t reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed.”

323. “She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn’t reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest. We don’t need another world. Everything we need is here, if we give up thinking we need everything. Invisible sharks One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it.”

324. “We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest. We don’t need another world. Everything we need is here, if we give up thinking we need everything. Invisible sharks One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don’t really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”

325. “There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don’t really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It’ hard to explain depression to people who haven’t suffered from it. It is like explaining life on Earth to an alien. The reference points just aren’t there. You have to resort to metaphors.”

326. “It’ hard to explain depression to people who haven’t suffered from it. It is like explaining life on Earth to an alien. The reference points just aren’t there. You have to resort to metaphors.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Actions create reactions. When things start to happen, other things start to happen. But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening – why all the buses are coming along at once – why life’s moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.”

327. “Actions create reactions. When things start to happen, other things start to happen. But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening – why all the buses are coming along at once – why life’s moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The past is never gone. It just hides.”

328. “The past is never gone. It just hides.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.”

329. “I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page.”

330. “It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The sense of being physically empty, of dissolving, of being a ghost whose existence was sourced by electric anxiety. And it became hard to breathe. The air thinned. It took massive concentration just to keep control of my breathing.”

331. “The sense of being physically empty, of dissolving, of being a ghost whose existence was sourced by electric anxiety. And it became hard to breathe. The air thinned. It took massive concentration just to keep control of my breathing.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Travel makes one modest” said Gustave Flaubert. “You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Such a perspective can be liberating. Especially when you have an illness that may on one hand lower self-esteem but on the other intensifies the trivial.”

332. “Travel makes one modest” said Gustave Flaubert. “You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Such a perspective can be liberating. Especially when you have an illness that may on one hand lower self-esteem but on the other intensifies the trivial.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn’t help anything. The problem, clearly, isn’t that we have a shortage of time. It’s more that we have an overload of everything else.”

333. “We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn’t help anything. The problem, clearly, isn’t that we have a shortage of time. It’s more that we have an overload of everything else.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard.”

334. “Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You need to learn the art of discretion. Of speaking about a thing without actually speaking of it. Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve,-.”

335. “You need to learn the art of discretion. Of speaking about a thing without actually speaking of it. Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve,-.”

Matt Haig Quote: “And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.”

336. “And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If pills work for you it doesn’t really matter if this is to do with serotonin or another process or anything else.- keep taking them. Hell, if licking wallpaper does it for you, do that. I am not anti pill. I am pro anything that works and I know pill do work for a lot of people.”

337. “If pills work for you it doesn’t really matter if this is to do with serotonin or another process or anything else.- keep taking them. Hell, if licking wallpaper does it for you, do that. I am not anti pill. I am pro anything that works and I know pill do work for a lot of people.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation. Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you ‘admit to’, it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.”

338. “Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation. Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you ‘admit to’, it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The art of swimming... was about purity. The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else. You kind of stopped being you and became the thing you were doing.”

339. “The art of swimming... was about purity. The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else. You kind of stopped being you and became the thing you were doing.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Confine your imagination. Do not lose yourself to dangerous daydreams. Do not sit and ponder and dwell on a life you are not living. Do something active. Exercise. Work harder. Answer your emails. Fill your diary with harmless social activities. By doing, we stop ourselves imagining. And imagining for us is a fast-moving car heading toward a cliff.”

340. “Confine your imagination. Do not lose yourself to dangerous daydreams. Do not sit and ponder and dwell on a life you are not living. Do something active. Exercise. Work harder. Answer your emails. Fill your diary with harmless social activities. By doing, we stop ourselves imagining. And imagining for us is a fast-moving car heading toward a cliff.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You arrived, with baby feet and hands and infinite happiness, and then the happiness slowly evaporated as your feet and hands grew bigger.”

341. “You arrived, with baby feet and hands and infinite happiness, and then the happiness slowly evaporated as your feet and hands grew bigger.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Because life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn’t matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree.”

342. “Because life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn’t matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You understand quite completely that the main lesson of history is: humans don’t learn from history. The twenty-first century could still turn out to be a bad cover version of the twentieth, but what could we do? People’s minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap. It was a recipe for disaster, but, alas, a familiar one. Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was.”

343. “You understand quite completely that the main lesson of history is: humans don’t learn from history. The twenty-first century could still turn out to be a bad cover version of the twentieth, but what could we do? People’s minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap. It was a recipe for disaster, but, alas, a familiar one. Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Reading Schopenhauer when you felt melancholy was like taking off your clothes when you felt cold, but a line of his came back to me.”

344. “Reading Schopenhauer when you felt melancholy was like taking off your clothes when you felt cold, but a line of his came back to me.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The weird thing about depression is that, even though you might have more suicidal thoughts, the fear of death remains the same.”

345. “The weird thing about depression is that, even though you might have more suicidal thoughts, the fear of death remains the same.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She didn’t need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn’t even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential.”

346. “She didn’t need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn’t even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Human beings, as a rule, simply don’t accept things that don’t fit their worldview.”

347. “Human beings, as a rule, simply don’t accept things that don’t fit their worldview.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I didn’t go too far before I saw her. She was walking on the other side of the street and she didn’t see me. It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide, they pass right through.”

348. “I didn’t go too far before I saw her. She was walking on the other side of the street and she didn’t see me. It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide, they pass right through.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can’t be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try.”

349. “Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can’t be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The hardest question I have ever been asked is: ‘How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?’ The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.”

350. “The hardest question I have ever been asked is: ‘How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?’ The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.”

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