If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness. Matt Haig Read Quote
Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don’t just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world – or a life – without them. Matt Haig Read Quote
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. It is not you. It is simply something that happens to you. Matt Haig Read Quote
There aren’t any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn’t be any for books. Matt Haig Read Quote
Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn’t be a writer without depression. Matt Haig Read Quote
Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing so fast. Matt Haig Read Quote
Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we’d like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls. Matt Haig Read Quote
I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality. Matt Haig Read Quote
Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it, and you end up falling through. Matt Haig Read Quote
Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search through the ‘Guardian’ web archive and realise I said, ‘Robots are great,’ and then they’ll choose to save me. Matt Haig Read Quote
