852 Quotes by Matt Haig

That was the familiar lesson of time. Everything changes and nothing changes.

If the modern world is making us feel bad, then it doesn’t matter what else we have going for us, because feeling bad sucks.

She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is a simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.

Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.

Human beings, as a rule, simply don’t accept things that don’t fit their worldview.

History was, is, a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards, but you don’t always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

I’m sorry,′ I said. ‘I’m sorry for everything. For the past and the future.’ An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could almost have written a poem.

She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

If you live long enough you realise that every proven fact is later disproved and then proven again.