852 Quotes by Matt Haig

Humans, as a rule, don’t like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead.

It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out. But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It’s the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy.

Failure is a trick of the light.

Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.

Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.

Words – spoken or written – are what connect us to the world, and so speaking about it to people, and writing about this stuff, helps connect us to each other, and to our true selves.

As Eleanor Roosevelt said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people’s lives.

That kind of monotony that running generates – the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements – became a kind of metaphor for depression.