852 Quotes by Matt Haig

Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction.

Saya sudah mengulur-ulur waktu menjadi dewasa, dan pikiran tentang kehidupan saya selanjutnya sebagai orang dewasa menaungi saya bagai gumpalan awan gelap yang sekarang mulai pecah dan menurunkan hujan.

Everything is going to be all right. Or, if not, everything is going to be, so let’s not worry.

Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?

There comes a point at which you have to face it. To face yourself. In a world of a million distractions you are still left with only one mind.

To talk about memories is to live them a little.

Want is an interesting word. It means lack.

Imagine all the time we had was bottled up, like wine. and handed over to us. How would we make that bottle last? By sipping slowly, appreciating the taste, or by gulping?

I began to wonder if it was a bad thing to dwell on problems. But then I remembered that it is precisely not talking about problems that is itself a problem. It’s what causes people to break down in their office or classroom. It’s what fills up addiction units and hospitals and raises suicide figures.