“Unlike a book or a film depression doesn’t have to be about something.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.' — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“There is no right or wrong way to have depression, or to have a panic attack, or to feel suicidal.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
We often joke about men moaning about being ill, whether it's man flu or anything else. We want them to be silent… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It' hard to explain depression to people who haven’t suffered from it. It is like explaining life on Earth to an alien.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don't let depression stop you employing someone, and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you 'admit to.' It is not something you have to blush about;… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“MEDICATION IS AN incredibly attractive concept. Not just for the person with depression, or the person running a pharmaceutical firm, but for… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Adding anxiety to depression is a bit like adding cocaine to alcohol. It presses fast-forward on the whole experience. If you have… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Now, Nikolas was a happy boy. Well, actually, no. He would have told you he was happy, if you asked him, and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell,… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself that you… — Matt Haig Copy Share
“It felt civilised and modern. It felt refined and tantalising, all at once, like a polite collective pre-orgasm.” — Matt Haig Copy Share
“He just wanted to live inside a moment of that life with her forever, to pluck it like a flower and press it in… — Matt Haig Copy Share
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion… — Matt Haig Copy Share
“That is one of the patterns: when nothing is happening, nothing continues to happen, but after a while the lull becomes too much and… — Matt Haig Copy Share
The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change. — Matt Haig Copy Share
For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write… — Matt Haig Copy Share
“We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a… — Matt Haig Copy Share
“Sa asculti muzica, mi-am dat eu seama, nu era altceva decat placerea de a numara fara sa iti dai seama ca numeri.” — Matt Haig Copy Share
“Beauty--be not caused," said Emily Dickinson. "It is." In one way she was wrong. The scattering of light over a long distance creates a… — Matt Haig Copy Share
I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but only short… — Matt Haig Copy Share
Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself. — Matt Haig Copy Share
A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself… — Matt Haig Copy Share
