Matt Haig Quotes

• Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

  Matt Haig

  People, Laughing, Comedy

  Matt Haig (2013). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

  57 Copy quote

• A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that.The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

  Matt Haig

  Confused, Book, Reading

  33 Copy quote

• Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

  Matt Haig

  Dies

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

  28 Copy quote

• Avice for a human. 87. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. 88. Which is to say: don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.

  Matt Haig

  Stars, Moving, Dark

  29 Copy quote

• The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

  Matt Haig

  Bravery, Madness, Acts Of Bravery

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

  12 Copy quote

• Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.

  Matt Haig

  Love Is, Scary, Challenges

  24 Copy quote

• And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.

  Matt Haig

  Book, Reading, Humanity

  Matt Haig (2015). “Reasons to Stay Alive”, p.100, Canongate Books

  25 Copy quote

• Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

  Matt Haig

  Wonder, Infinite, Finite

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

• Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

  Matt Haig

  Heart, Facts, Command

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

  17 Copy quote

• This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

  Matt Haig

  Clothes, Body, Planets

  19 Copy 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.

  Matt Haig

  Age, Fifteen, Six

  21 Copy quote

• If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

  Matt Haig

  Thinking, Looks, Ugly

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

• Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

  Matt Haig

  Art, Hate, Advice

  23 Copy quote

• Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.

  Matt Haig

  Kissing, Humans

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

• Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

  Matt Haig

  Thinking, Advice, Important

  21 Copy quote

• Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

  Matt Haig

  Laughter, Way, Emergencies

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

  16 Copy quote

• Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

  Matt Haig

  Dark, Light, Mind

  Matt Haig (2013). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

  15 Copy quote

• If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

  Matt Haig

  Hangover, People, Drunk

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

  12 Copy quote

• Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

  Matt Haig

  Flower, Going For It, Earth

  17 Copy quote

• There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

  Matt Haig

  Book, Genre Is, Fiction

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

• Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

  Matt Haig

  Block, Triggers, Cures

  7 Copy quote

• The possibility of pain is where love stems from

  Matt Haig

  Pain, Possibility, Stem

  Matt Haig (2013). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

• All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.

  Matt Haig

  Existence, Terror, Humans

  12 Copy 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?

  Matt Haig

  Believe, Wine, Drunk

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

• Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

  Matt Haig

  Girly, Vampire, Provocative

  Matt Haig (2011). “The Radleys: A Novel”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

  15 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Thomas H. Cook

Marcus Sedgwick

Graeme Simsion

Jenny Colgan

Frances Hardinge

Jeanette Winterson

Philippa Gregory

Derek Landy