852 Quotes by Matt Haig

I do not like wearing clothes,” I said, with quite delicate precision. “They chafe. They are uncomfortable around my genitals.” And then, remembering all I had learned from Cosmopolitan magazine, I leaned in toward them and added what I thought would be the clincher. “They may seriously hinder my chances of achieving a tantric full-body orgasm.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love’s gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.

Be nice to other people. At the universal level, they are you.

Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge.

It occurred to me that human beings didn’t live beyond a hundred because they simply weren’t up for it. Psychologically, I mean. You kind of ran out. There wasn’t enough self to keep going. You grew too bored of your own mind.

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.

Don’t aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.

Anxiety,’ Kierkegaard wrote, in the middle of the nineteenth century, ’is the dizziness of freedom.