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Matt Haig Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“All we can do, for the moment is really we need to do – listen to ourselves. When we are trying to get better, the only truth that matters is what works for us.”
— Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
Tagged: reasons to stay alive, Listen, Self love, Truth
“Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these 'normal' human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.”
— Matt Haig, The Radleys: A Novel
Tagged: Repression, british, Middle Class
“Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.”
— Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
Tagged: Music, emotions, Rebirth
“'A cocktail,' she said, 'is a great ally in the war.’

'Which war is that?' I asked.

'The war against boredom.'”
— Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
Tagged: cocktail, ally, War, Boredom, Drinking
“'He smiled softly. 'People you love never die.' I had no idea of the sense of his words, but they stayed with me for centuries.'”
— Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
Tagged: Love, Immortality
“I think we’ll truly be there with mental health when we just see it exactly the same as physical health … But I think the first step has to be the conversation, and the conversation is happening so that’s good.”
— Matt Haig, Matt Haig: ‘I think books can save us. They sort of saved me’
Tagged: Mental Health, physical health
“Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”
— Matt Haig, The Humans: A Novel
Tagged: Inspiring, Adventure, Happiness, Contentment
“When I feel happiness or love I feel those things intensely, and I feel pain intensely. It's the price of feeling.”
— Matt Haig
Tagged: Happiness, Love, Pain, Extremes, H4D-49
“Suicide is cultural. It fluctuates not only between genders but between nations and eras.”
— Matt Haig, Talking about male suicide is only the start
Tagged: male suicide, Suicide, Mental Health
“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, The Humans: A Novel
Tagged: Dark Matter, galaxy, Cosmos, Light
“I think Twitter is the exact opposite of a book. A book is such a considered thing, such a safe space of the mind where you just go to and it’s not immediately interactive and it has different eyes on it. Twitter, for me … is just an impulsive rash response.”
— Matt Haig, Matt Haig: ‘I think books can save us. They sort of saved me’
Tagged: Twitter, Books, Impulsive
“'The love of a person never disappears,' he said softly. 'Even if they might. We have memories, you see, Amelia. Love never dies. We love someone and they love us back, and that love is stored, and it protects us. It is bigger than life, and it doesn't end with with life. It stays inside us. They stay inside us. Inside our hearts.'”
— Matt Haig, The Girl Who Saved Christmas
Tagged: Love, Immortal, forever person
“'My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. Moralistic but a devout lover of pleasure (food, music, the aesthetics of nature). Deeply religious but seemingly as comforted by singing a secular chanson as by prayer. A lover of the natural world who was visibly anxious every time she left the castle. Fragile, but also though and stubborn. I never knew how many of her oddities had sprung from grief and how many from her own inherent nature. 'There is not one blade of grass, there is no colour in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice,' my mother told me once, shortly after arriving in England.'”
— Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
Tagged: mother, Tradition, moralistic, Pleasure, England
“That is one of the patterns: when nothing is happening, nothing continues to happen, but after a while the lull becomes too much and the drums need to kick in. Something has to happen. Often that need comes from yourself. You make a phone call. You say, 'I can't do this life anymore, I need to change.' And one thing happens which you are in control of. And then another happens which you have no control over. Newton's third law of motion. 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, How to Stop Time
Tagged: Patterns, lull, Pain, Isaac Newton
“'Can I ask you something?' asks Will, after a while.

The man sips his whisky instead of answering.

Will asks the question anyway. 'Have you ever been in love?'

The man places his glass down and stares at Will, steel-eyed. The expected reaction, 'Once,' he responds , the word just a croak from the back of his throat.

Will nods. 'It's always just once, isn't it? The rest…they're just echoes.’”
— Matt Haig, The Radleys: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, Echoes
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