852 Quotes by Matt Haig

To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it.

He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things “one day at a time,” as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

I didn’t go too far before I saw her. She was walking on the other side of the street and she didn’t see me. It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide, they pass right through.

The sky, like the sea, can anchor us. It says: hey, it’s okay, there is something bigger than your life that you are part of, and it’s – literally – cosmic.

Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet.

Time, I realise, is a weapon these days. Nothing weakens people like having to wait. In the street. With a knife in their hand.

I wanted to be dead. No. That’s not quite right. I didn’t want to be dead, I just didn’t want to be alive.

The more you research the science of depression, the more you realise it is still more characterised by what we don’t know than what we do. It is 90 per cent mystery.

Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard.