Matt Haig Quotes

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

I love being alive. I like being a human being.

Everybody's human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time.

I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality.

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN

The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

Our lives are interesting.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.