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The Midnight Library Quotes That Talk Life

About The Midnight Library:-

Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is a rundown of the infinite possibilities life carries with itself. It’s about a young woman named Nora Seed who is achingly dejected with the way life has unfolded for her.

One night, her despair soars to an uncontrollable level of hopelessness and she ends up committing suicide.

After the dramatic series of events that follow, she wakes up and finds herself in a place called the Midnight Library, a quantum state that allows her to move between an infinite number of possible versions of her life. 

As she dives into alternative realities, she gets insights into the locus her life could have taken for her contrasting decisions. After experiencing different realities she ends up with the realization that her “real life” was actually the best one she could have had. 

This amazing book forced me to revisit Free Will from Sam Harris. 

The Midnight Library Quotes:―

Check out this list of 25 Quotes from The Midnight Library that talk life in the way only Matt Haig can:

1.

A PERSON was like a CITY. You couldn’t let FEW LESS DESIRABLE parts put you off the WHOLE. There may be bits YOU DON’T LIKE, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the GOOD STUFF makes it WORTHWHILE.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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2.

But there is NO LIFE where you can be in a STATE of sheer HAPPINESS FOREVER.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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3.

LIFE BEGINS, Sartre once wrote, on the OTHER SIDE OF DESPAIR.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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4.

Do you ever think ‘HOW DID I END UP HERE? Like you are in a maze and totally lost and it’s all your fault because YOU WERE THE ONE WHO MADE EVERY TURN?

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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5.

It was a familiar feeling. This feeling of BEING INCOMPLETE in just about every sense. An UNFINISHED JIGJAW of a human. INCOMPLETE LIVING and INCOMPLETE DYING.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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6.

She wasn’t a BLACK HOLE, she decided. She was a VOLCANO. And like a volcano, she couldn’t RUN AWAY from herself. She’d have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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7.

EVERY MOVE had been a MISTAKE, EVERY DECISION A DISASTER, EVERY DAY A RETREAT from who she’d imagined she’d be.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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8.

In the COSMIC ORDER of things. There is NO REJECTION, there is ONLY REDIRECTION.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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9.

Sometimes Just To Say Your Own Truth Out Loud Is Enough To Find Others Like You.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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10.

I Have Carefully Calculated That The Pain Of Me Living As The Bloody Disaster That Is Myself Is Greater Than The Pain Anyone Else Will Feel If I Were To Die.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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11.

She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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12.

Well, that’s the beauty, isn’t it? You just NEVER KNOW HOW IT ENDS.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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13.

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the PRISON WASN’T THE PLACE, BUT THE PERSPECTIVE.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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14.

This Was All Meaningless Without Love.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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15.

Marriage Was Something You Did At The Appropriate Time With The Nearest Available Person. A Game Where You Grabbed The First Person You Could Find When The Music Stopped.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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16.

Is Happiness The Aim?”
“I Don’t Know. I Suppose I Want My Life To Mean Something. 

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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17.

Why Want Another Universe If This One Has Dogs?

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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18.

You Can Have Everything And Feel Nothing.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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19.

So Long As There Are Still Books On The Shelves, You Are Never Trapped. Every Book Is A Potential Escape.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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20.

There is NO REJECTION, there is ONLY REDIRECTION.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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21.

I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Also Read: 10 Feel-Good Matt Haig Quotes from the book Notes on a Nervous Planet


22.

Will My Life Be Miraculously Free From Pain, Despair, Grief, Heartbreak, Hardship, Loneliness, Depression? No.

But Do I Want To Live?

Yes. YES.

A Thousand Times, YES.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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23.

That Means There Are Still As Many Possible Lives Out There For You As There Ever Were. An Infinite Number, In Fact. YOU CAN NEVER RUN OUT OF POSSIBLITIES.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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24.

Happy Moments Can Turn Into Pain, Given Time.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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25.

All Good Things Are Wild And Free.

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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Amazon Links to Buy Matt Haig’s Books:

  1. Reasons to Stay Alive | Amazon.in | Amazon US
  2. Notes on a Nervous Planet | Amazon.in | Amazon US
  3. The Midnight Library | Amazon.in | Amazon US

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