852 Quotes by Matt Haig

On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.

There is a darkness that fringes everything. It is a most horrid ecstasy.′ And I felt the horror of her horror. That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.

That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.

I was drinking a cup of tea. I actually enjoyed tea. It was so much better than coffee. It tasted like comfort.

HAPPINESS IS NOT good for the economy. We are encouraged, continually, to be a little bit dissatisfied with ourselves. Our bodies are too fat, or too thin, or too saggy. Our skin is expected to have the right ‘sun-kissed glow’, or the.

WE ARE ESSENTIALLY alone.

Places don’t matter to people any more. Places aren’t the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.

Some humans not only liked violence, but craved it, I realised. Not because they wanted pain, but because they already had pain and wanted to be distracted away from that kind of pain with a lesser kind.

If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury of happiness. They just want to feel an absence of pain.