852 Quotes by Matt Haig

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.

In a world that can get too much, a world where we are running out of mind space, fictional worlds are essential. They can be an escape from reality, yes, but not an escape from truth.

Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself. But each map was incomplete, and I would only locate the treasure if I read all the books, and so the process of finding my best self was an endless quest. And books themselves seemed to me to reflect this idea. Which is why the plot of every book ever can be boiled down to ‘someone is looking for something’.

She realised that she hadn’t tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.

There will be other days. And other feelings.

Everyone has a limit – a point at which they can’t take any more – and, almost out of nowhere, I had reached mine.

A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another.

The most powerful moment in life is when you decide not to be scared anymore.

That’s the odd thing about depression and anxiety. It acts like an intense fear of happiness, even as you yourself consciously want that happiness more than anything.