852 Quotes by Matt Haig

Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.

It is so nice to be somewhere I don’t know. To be somewhere new, when the world has felt so stale and familiar.

To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling.

Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ’is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.

There is no right or wrong way to have depression, or to have a panic attack, or to feel suicidal.

Never say ‘pull yourself together’ or ‘cheer up’ unless you’re also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.

That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.

You understand quite completely that the main lesson of history is: humans don’t learn from history. The twenty-first century could still turn out to be a bad cover version of the twentieth, but what could we do? People’s minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap. It was a recipe for disaster, but, alas, a familiar one. Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was.