852 Quotes by Matt Haig

No two moralities match. Accept different shapes, so long as they aren’t sharp enough to hurt.

The hardest question I have ever been asked is: ‘How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?’ The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.

We are trapped by time, but also infinite. Made of flesh, but also stars.

It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn’t know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Was I that soft? Or was life a kind of war most people didn’t see?

I had been through no war and yet I related to that feeling of pain contained in every new day, as “Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh.” It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with posttraumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn’t know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Was I that soft? Or was life a kind of war most people didn’t see?

I should also say, in case it needs saying: I don’t know for sure that the words I write were the words that were actually spoken. They probably weren’t. But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

What if there are more than two roads diverging in the wood? What if there are more roads than trees? What if there is no end to the choices you could make? What would Robert Frost do then?

To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. You are walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames.

The world is real, but your world is subjective. Changing your perspective changes your planet.