Matt Haig Quotes

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Once I'm obsessed with somebody, I'm terrified of them instantly. I'm not scared of them - I'm scared of me and how I will react.

I'm overemotional.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

Sometimes I get emotional. I let my emotions get the best of me.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

I wouldn't want to be known as Mr Depression, but I found that when I did dip a toe in the water and talk about it, the response from the public was incredible.

You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.

If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.

People don't know how to talk about being depressed - that it's totally okay to feel sad.

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.