Matt Haig Quotes

Novelist

Matt Haig is a British novelist born in 1975. His works are known for their humor and profound emotional insight, enjoying great popularity among readers. Haig's writing spans a variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and realism.

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“For centuries I have thought all my despair is grief. But people get over grief. They get over even the most serious grief in a matter of years. If not get over then at least live beside. And the way they do this is by investing in other people, through friendship, through family, through teaching, through love.”

Love Friendship Loss Grief Despair

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

“I loved someone once. A woman. I loved her madly. Do you understand? We were together, in secret, for nearly twenty years. And we were told we couldn't talk about that love… because it was dangerous. It was dangerous to love […] There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.”

Love Truth Time Women Danger Living Secrets Defiance Disclosure Social Constraints

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

“People you love deeply become elemental. To hear they won't be there any more is like hearing the air or ocean won't be. It feels like a fatal disruption to the universe.”

Love Pain Lost Family Relationship

Book:The Life Impossible

Source: The Life Impossible

“There is a darkness that fringes everything. It is a most horrid ecstasy.' And I felt the horror of her horror. That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another's pain as if our own.”

Love Pain Empathy

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

“I have been in love only once in my life. I suppose that makes me a romantic, in a sense. The idea that you have one true love, that no one else will compare after they have gone. It's a sweet idea, but the reality is terror itself. To be faced with all those lonely years after. To exist when the point of you has gone.”

Love Romance Time True Love

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

“She gave me peace just by looking at her, which might explain why I looked at her for too long, and with too much intensity in my eyes. The way people never look at people anymore. I wanted her in every sense.”

Love Real Love

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

“And then I told them what always comes so easy when it is too late. "I love you, darling. I will see you later.”

Love Family

Book:The Life Impossible

Source: The Life Impossible

“It wasn’t just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.”

Love Relationships Loss Emotions

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

“This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying the same, standing in the same spot they were in over a decade ago, when they first met. Surely the reality is that connections between people aren't permanent, but fleeting and random, like a solar eclipse or clouds meeting in the sky. They exist in a constantly moving universe full of constantly moving objects.”

Love Relationships Family Family Relationships Family Ties Familial Love Created Family

Book:The Radleys

Source: The Radleys

“It may seem strange, falling in love with someone because of a gesture, but sometimes you can read an entire person in a single moment. The way you can study a grain of sand and understand the universe. Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.”

Love Time Falling In Love

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

“The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.”

Love Life Inspirational Moments Reality Time Living Present Moment

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

“So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”

Love Hurt

Book:The Humans

Source: The Humans

“So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?” “Pretty much.”

Love Hurt

Book:The Humans

Source: The Humans

“But people get over grief. They get over even the most serious grief in a matter of years. If not get over then at least live beside. And the way they do this is by investing in other people, through friendship, through family, through teaching, through love.”

Love Friendship Grief Sadness

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

About the Author

Born: 1975
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 744

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The Midnight LibraryRelated source material

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