852 Quotes by Matt Haig

Life is like a chimney – you sometimes have to get through the dark before you see the light.

What is depression? Its like a tornado, theres nothing you can do but sit and wait, and finally when the storm is over... you are left with the destruction. The scars on your body, the puffy eyes from crying, the exhaustion from fighting a losing battle. It’s consuming.

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can’t be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try.

Change doesn’t just happen by focusing on the place you want to escape. It happens by focusing on where you want to reach.

Most gossip is envy in disguise.

The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn’t this objective unchangeable thing called “The World.” No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds.

She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn’t reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed.

Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.

You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no 'us' and 'them.' No one is one hundred per cent healthy, physically or mentally.