“ Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you. Matt Haig
“ No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you. Matt Haig
“ It is another unsolved mystery in a world full of unsolved mysteries.Now stand up and walk out the way you came, and the moment that fresh air caresses your face, you will realize that that is what ma… Matt Haig
“ Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction. Matt Haig
“ The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness. Matt Haig
“ Even more staggeringly, depression is a disease so bad that people are killing themselves because of it in a way they do not kill themselves with any other illness. Yet people still don’t really think… Matt Haig
“ People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Thing… Matt Haig
“ That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression. Matt Haig
“ But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realised I wasn't perfectly well was the moment I realised I was still very… Matt Haig
“ This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying the same, standing in the same spot they were in over a decade ago, when they first met. Surely the… Matt Haig
“ It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out. Matt Haig
“ How to stop time: kiss.How to travel in time: read.How to escape time: music.How to feel time: write.How to release time: breathe. Matt Haig
“ There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet. Matt Haig
“ Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are. Matt Haig
“ The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered. Matt Haig
“ The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes. Matt Haig
