852 Quotes by Matt Haig

When I first traveled around the globe, it took over a year, on a boat full of men, who were lucky if they made it. Now, the world is just there. All of it. In an hour I will be on a flight to Sydney, and by lunchtime I will have arrived. It makes me feel claustrophobic, as if the world is literally shrinking, like a balloon losing air.

Doubts are like swallows. They follow each other and swarm together.

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.

Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.

One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it. There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrorized.

Don’t worry about things you can’t control.

I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.

I was scared. I couldn’t not be. Being scared is what anxiety is all about.

When looking at triggers for mental health problems, therapists often identify an intense change in someone’s life as a major factor.