852 Quotes by Matt Haig

I stared at myself in the mirror. I stared at my face until it was not my face. I went back to the table and sat down and I did not say how I was feeling to anyone. To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling.

Remember no one really cares what you look like. They care what they look like. You are the only person in the world to have worried about your face.

Depression is kind of quantum physics of thought and emotion. It reveals what is normally hidden. It unravels you

If pills work for you it doesn't really matter if this is to do with serotonin or another process or anything else.- keep taking them. Hell, if licking wallpaper does it for you, do that. I am not anti pill. I am pro anything that works and I know pill do work for a lot of people.

Of everyone I have ever met, I would say Agnes was the most difficult to put into words. She was an extremely rare concoction of forthright character, amoral habits and restrained manners.

Well, what would you say if I said that I have visited my other lives, and I think I have chosen this one?''I would think you were insane. But I'd still like you.''Well, I have. I have had many lives.'He smiled. 'Great. Is there one where you kiss me again?''There is one where you buried my dead cat.'He laughed. 'That's so cool, Nor. The thing I like about you is that you always make me feel normal'And that was it.

Tears were a kind of language and I felt all language was far away from me. I was beneath tears. Tears were what you shed in purgatory. By the time you were in hell it was too late.

Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.

But, as time grew on, I knew something I hadn't known earlier. I knew that down wasn't the only direction. If you hung in there, if you stuck it out, then things got better. They get better and then they get worse and then they get better.