852 Quotes by Matt Haig

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.

No one is ever completely right about anything. Anywhere.

Humans, I was discovering, believed they were in control of their own lives, and so they were in awe of questions and tests, as these made them feel like they had a certain mastery over other people, who had failed in their choices, and who had not worked hard enough on the right answers.

Accept. Don’t fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

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.

You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.

Tragedy is just comedy that hasn’t come to fruition. One day we will laugh at this. We will laugh at everything.

End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way people respond to them.

To see the act of learning as something not for its own sake but because of what it will get you reduces the wonder of humanity. We are thinking, feeling, art-making, knowledge-hungry, marvellous animals, who understand ourselves and our world through the act of learning. It is an end in itself. It has far more to offer than the things it lets us write on application forms. It is a way to love living right now.