Hello. Here is a list of 14 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The Midnight Library Quotes
- Between life and death there is a library. And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices … Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- A person was like a city. You couldn’t let a 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. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- The art of swimming was about purity. The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else. You kind of stopped being you and became the thing you were doing. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul-enhanced search engines. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- Regrets don’t leave. They weren’t mosquito bites. They itch for ever. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- Never underestimate the big importance of small things. You must always remember that. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- The rook is my favourite piece. It’s the one that you think you don’t have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen, and the knights, and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But it’s the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don’t give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise. Keep your head down. Keep your stamina. Keep swimming. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. […] But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- Human beings when there’s enough of them together acting in total unison become something else. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- You need to realise something if you are ever to succeed at chess. And the thing you need to realise is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn’t over if there is a single pawn still on the board. If one side is down to a pawn and a king, and the other side has every player, there is still a game. And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn’t. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
- At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And there is no right way to play; there are many ways. In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of living. – Quote from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig