852 Quotes by Matt Haig

I was scared. What if I didn’t die? What if I was just paralyzed, and I was trapped, motionless, in that state, forever?

The time ahead of you is like the land beyond the ice. You can guess what it could be like but you can never know. All you know is the moment you are in.

Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form.

The weird thing about depression is that, even though you might have more suicidal thoughts, the fear of death remains the same.

The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.

Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else.

That is what history is, the teaching and telling of it. It is a way to control it and order it. To turn it into a pet. But history you have lived is different to history you read in a book or on a screen. And some things in the past can’t be tamed.

I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad.

It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky, but – if that is the metaphor – you are the sky.