The Comfort Book
"Only finite things can be measured, after all."
— Matt Haig, The Comfort Book (2021)
Introduction
| The Comfort Book | |
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| Author | Matt Haig |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Contentment; Hope; Happiness; Inspiration |
| Genre | Nonfiction; Self-help |
| Publisher | Penguin Life |
Publication date | 6 July 2021 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover); e-book; audiobook |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-313666-8 |
| Website | penguinrandomhouse.com |
Chapter summary
This outline follows the Penguin Life hardcover edition (2021, 272 pp.; ISBN 978-0-14-313666-8).[1][2]
I
👶 1 – Baby.
🎯 2 – You Are the Goal.
🧭 3 – A thing my dad said once when we were lost in a forest.
✅ 4 – It’s okay.
⚡ 5 – Power.
⚖️ 6 – Nothing either good or bad.
🔄 7 – Change is real.
🕊️ 8 – To be is to let go.
📍 9 – Somewhere.
🎧 10 – Songs that comfort me—a playlist.
⛰️ 11 – Mountain.
🌄 12 – Valley.
➕ 13 – Sum.
🔤 14 – The subject in the sentence.
🧠 15 – To remember during the bad days.
🕳️ 16 – For when you reach rock bottom.
🗿 17 – Rock.
📚 18 – Ten books that helped my mind.
🗣️ 19 – Words.
💬 20 – Words (two).
❓ 21 – The power of why.
🧩 22 – The gaps of life.
🚫 23 – A few don’ts.
🧱 24 – Foundation.
🟣 25 – Purple saxifrage.
🔗 26 – Connected.
💡 27 – A thing I discovered recently.
🍐 28 – Pear.
🍞 29 – Toast.
🧆 30 – Hummus.
🌲 31 – There is always a path through the forest.
🍕 32 – Pizza.
🗺️ 33 – A little plan.
🪜 34 – Ladders.
❌ 35 – Life is not.
✔️ 36 – Life is.
📖 37 – Chapter.
🚪 38 – Room.
🛑 39 – No.
🌀 40 – The maze.
🌳 41 – Knowledge and the forest.
🪟 42 – Minds and windows.
☯️ 43 – A paradox.
🛣️ 44 – Crossroads.
😊 45 – Happiness.
🌼 46 – One beautiful thing.
🌱 47 – Growth.
🍝 48 – Pasta.
🎲 49 – How to be random.
🔮 50 – The future is open.
🧘 51 – Being, not doing.
✂️ 52 – Short.
🥜 53 – Peanut butter on toast.
II
🌊 54 – River.
🚧 55 – Dam.
✨ 56 – Elements of hope.
⌫ 57 – Delete the italics.
🛠️ 58 – Tips for how to make a bad day better.
💎 59 – The most important kind of wealth.
📌 60 – A reminder for the tough times.
🐟 61 – The goldsaddle goatfish.
🌧️ 62 – Rain.
🦁 63 – Truth and courage and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs.
📜 64 – Scroll your mind.
🔁 65 – Current.
🥲 66 – Good sad.
🦈 67 – Jaws and Nietzsche and death and life.
🤿 68 – Underwater.
📧 69 – I hope this email finds you well.
🔭 70 – A note on the future.
⚠️ 71 – Beware because.
🙅 72 – Ten things that won’t make you happier.
🛡️ 73 – Check your armor.
👤 74 – A human, being.
☔ 75 – You are waterproof.
III
🕯️ 76 – Candle.
👜 77 – A bag of moments.
💝 78 – Your most treasured possession.
🐺 79 – Wolf.
🔥 80 – Burn.
🏛️ 81 – Virtue.
🌲 82 – An asymmetric tree is one hundred percent a tree.
🫶 83 – You are more than your worst behavior.
🧣 84 – Warm.
💭 85 – Dream.
🔍 86 – Clarity.
🧪 87 – The importance of weird thinking.
🌤️ 88 – Outside.
🤯 89 – Realization.
🌍 90 – The way out of your mind is via the world.
🪶 91 – Joy Harjo and the one whole voice.
🧥 92 – Protection.
⚛️ 93 – Quantum freedom.
👥 94 – Other people are other people.
↩️ 95 – Wrong direction.
⚙️ 96 – Applied energy.
🧹 97 – Mess.
🏹 98 – Aim to be you.
☕ 99 – Cup.
🍒 100 – Pomegranate.
🎶 101 – Let it be.
IV
☁️ 102 – The sky.
🌟 103 – Watch the stars.
♾️ 104 – The universe is change.
⛓️ 105 – The Stoic slave.
🐛 106 – Caterpillar.
🌡️ 107 – Experience.
🌬️ 108 – A bit about breathing.
🫁 109 – What your breath tells you.
🏕️ 110 – Live in the raw.
👀 111 – Honest seeing.
⏳ 112 – Wait.
🤝 113 – The cure for loneliness.
🧵 114 – Patterns.
😬 115 – The discomfort zone.
📦 116 – Stuff.
🎬 117 – Ferris Bueller and the meaning of life.
🎞️ 118 – Films that comfort.
⚪ 119 – Negative capability.
🌿 120 – Why break when you can bend?
🫂 121 – We have more in common than we think.
🤍 122 – Forgiveness.
🙇 123 – A note on introversion.
🛌 124 – Resting is doing.
🕵️ 125 – Mystery.
🌫️ 126 – The comfort of uncertainty.
🛸 127 – Portal.
🔓 128 – Nothing is closed.
📏 129 – The bearable rightness of being.
🪢 130 – Reconnection.
📝 131 – A note on joy.
🪙 132 – A spinning coin.
❤️🔥 133 – You are alive.
1️⃣ 134 – One.
2️⃣ 135 – One (two).
🔋 136 – Power.
🌾 137 – Growing pains.
👹 138 – How to look a demon in the eye.
🗓️ 139 – Remember.
↔️ 140 – Opposites.
💔 141 – Love/despair.
🌅 142 – Possibility.
🗝️ 143 – The door.
🎉 144 – The messy miracle of being here.
🙏 145 – Acceptance.
🕰️ 146 – Basic nowness.
🐋 147 – How to be an ocean.
🔼 148 – More.
🔚 149 – End.
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References
- ↑ "The Comfort Book". Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ↑ "The Comfort Book". Penguin Random House Library. Penguin Random House. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2025.