It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

— Matt Haig

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.

— Matt Haig

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.

— Matt Haig

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— Matt Haig

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

— Matt Haig

MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.

— Matt Haig

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.

— Matt Haig

Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport

— Matt Haig

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

— Matt Haig

Now, consider this.　A human life is on average 80 Earth years or around 30,000 Earth days. Which means they are born, they make some friends, eat a few meals, they get married, or they don’t get married, have a child or two, or not, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have sexual intercourse a few times, discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realize they would have done it the same, and then they die. Into the great black nothing. Out of space. Out of time. The most trivial of trivial zeroes. And that’s it, the full caboodle. All confined to the same mediocre planet.

— Matt Haig