852 Quotes by Matt Haig

Sometimes regrets aren’t based on fact at all.

Minds can’t see what they can’t handle. It’s like how humans never see the second hand of a clock mid-tick.

Sometimes depression triggers anxiety.

Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.

But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realised I wasn’t perfectly well was the moment I realised I was still very ill indeed.

There is no panacea, or utopia, there is just love and kindness and trying, amid the chaos, to make things better where we can.

To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.

The very reason such music exists is because it is a language that couldn’t be communicated in any other way. But all I can say is that I felt suddenly.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.