Matt Haig quote: "Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure."

It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
MATT HAIG

I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i...
MATT HAIG

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed dow...
MATT HAIG

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; th...
MATT HAIG

Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as the...
MATT HAIG

Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive...
MATT HAIG

You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. The...
MATT HAIG

You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for h...
MATT HAIG

Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out ...
MATT HAIG

I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about on...
MATT HAIG

Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental ...
MATT HAIG

The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might...
MATT HAIG

in a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our...
MATT HAIG

Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads ...
MATT HAIG

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them ag...
MATT HAIG

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for...
MATT HAIG

My mum always said I devoured 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' at the tender age of fo...
MATT HAIG

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for ...
MATT HAIG

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and count...
MATT HAIG

If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process int...
MATT HAIG

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they a...
MATT HAIG

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
MATT HAIG

In an age of never-ending health fads, it's comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activ...
MATT HAIG

However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound chee...
MATT HAIG

Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don't let...
MATT HAIG

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is...
MATT HAIG

People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more...
MATT HAIG

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for e...
MATT HAIG

I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people...
MATT HAIG

I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like...
MATT HAIG

It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental il...
MATT HAIG

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when ta...
MATT HAIG

I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to impro...
MATT HAIG

We often joke about men moaning about being ill, whether it's man flu or anything else. We want ...
MATT HAIG

This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying ...
MATT HAIG

Impossible. An old elf swearword.
MATT HAIG

Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly wha...
MATT HAIG

MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to ho...
MATT HAIG

Liebe war der Weg, ewig zu leben in einem einzigen Moment
MATT HAIG

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see t...
MATT HAIG

Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.
MATT HAIG

The key to happiness - or that even more desired thing, calmness - lies not in always thinking happy...
MATT HAIG

Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
MATT HAIG

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
MATT HAIG

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline ...
MATT HAIG

The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don’t ...
MATT HAIG

And for three weeks I was trapped in my own mind again. But this time, I had weapons. One of them, m...
MATT HAIG

Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the...
MATT HAIG

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How t...
MATT HAIG

But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thin...
MATT HAIG

Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stingi...
MATT HAIG

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see t...
MATT HAIG

One cliché attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of ...
MATT HAIG

Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make tim...
MATT HAIG

An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes think...
MATT HAIG

Things people say to depressives that they don’t say in other life-threatening situations:
MATT HAIG

Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.
MATT HAIG

You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.
MATT HAIG

If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the ...
MATT HAIG

I am you and you are me. We are alone, but not alone. We are trapped by time, but also infinite. Mad...
MATT HAIG

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.
MATT HAIG

To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. You are walking around with your head on fi...
MATT HAIG

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on thi...
MATT HAIG

Even more staggeringly, depression is a disease so bad that people are killing themselves because of...
MATT HAIG

Advice for a human.

87. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a G...
MATT HAIG

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.
MATT HAIG

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have ...
SID HAIG

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the globa...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough...
ALEXANDER HAIG

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.
ALEXANDER HAIG

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous d...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derriere than any other candidate- that's political scar tis...
ALEXANDER HAIG

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
ALEXANDER HAIG

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negat...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchil...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9...
ALEXANDER HAIG

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a...
DOUGLAS HAIG

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it...
DOUGLAS HAIG

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the g...
ALEXANDER HAIG

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there ...
DOUGLAS HAIG

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantag...
DOUGLAS HAIG

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost...
DOUGLAS HAIG

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and fru...
ALEXANDER HAIG

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

It appears to me we haven't learned very much.
ALEXANDER HAIG

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
ALEXANDER HAIG

Until he left office, that man was in control. He was distraught. He was in a personal crisis of unp...
ALEXANDER HAIG

And the reason was that there would be a right-wing uprising in America, which would keep the Democr...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Every asset of the nation must be applied to the conflict to bring about a quick and successful outc...
ALEXANDER HAIG

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment...
ALEXANDER HAIG

There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion.
ALEXANDER HAIG

When the Shah found himself in trouble, we quite literally stabbed him in the back.
ALEXANDER HAIG

What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizin...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following th...
ALEXANDER HAIG

When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twof...
SID HAIG

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
ALEXANDER HAIG

It's going to take an extra effort on the part of the United States that can't just afford to be unc...
ALEXANDER HAIG

[Haig told Perot that] the Christmas effort to send mail to U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam c...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of i...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferen...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bl...
ALEXANDER HAIG

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure o...
ALEXANDER HAIG

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
ALEXANDER HAIG

I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'...
ALEXANDER HAIG

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to th...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
ALEXANDER HAIG

I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.
BRIAN HAIG

Bullets have little stopping-power against the horse
GENERAL DOUGLAS HAIG

I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us think and fe...
RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
MATT CAMERON

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting...
MATT KEMP

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.
MATT KEMP

When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes...
MATT KEMP

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.
MATT KEMP

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with jus...
MATT KEMP

I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking...
MATT KEMP

I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community....
MATT KEMP

I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, ...
MATT KEMP

Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.
MATT KEMP

If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the pur...
MATT KEMP

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.
MATT KEMP

Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the m...
MATT HARVEY

I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?
MATT LAUER

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
MATT DAMON

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, inc...
MATT CAMERON

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switc...
MATT CAMERON

I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path f...
MATT CAMERON

Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.
MATT CAMERON

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard tim...
MATT CAMERON

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship j...
MATT CAMERON

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to ...
MATT CAMERON

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgard...
MATT CAMERON

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.
MATT CAMERON

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what'...
MATT CAMERON

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
MATT CAMERON

I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.
MATT CAMERON

I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like t...
MATT CAMERON

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't...
MATT CAMERON

I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
MATT CAMERON

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked be...
MATT CAMERON

If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.
MATT CAMERON

Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming a...
MATT CAMERON

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was f...
MATT CAMERON

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.
MATT CAMERON

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
MATT CAMERON

I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hy...
MATT CAMERON

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic...
MATT DILLON

I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,...
MATT GROENING

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
MATT BLUNT

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failur...
MATT BLUNT

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increa...
MATT BLUNT

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be le...
MATT BLUNT

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
MATT BLUNT

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent elec...
MATT BLUNT

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an...
MATT BLUNT

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good...
MATT BLUNT

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and lib...
MATT BLUNT

Public education is an investment in our future.
MATT BLUNT

With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our or...
MATT GROENING

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
MATT GROENING

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature ma...
MATT GROENING

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two hal...
MATT GROENING

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.
MATT GROENING

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.
MATT GROENING

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're ...
MATT GROENING

I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it...
MATT GROENING

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I...
MATT GROENING

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody fel...
MATT GROENING

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encou...
MATT GROENING

The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on ...
MATT GROENING

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd eve...
MATT GROENING

The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the R...
MATT GROENING

My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitio...
MATT GROENING

If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, ...
MATT GROENING

Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
MATT GROENING

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
MATT GROENING

If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
MATT BOMER

I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
MATT LAUER

A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it w...
MATT APUZZO

I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are gr...
MATT DILLON

Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
MATT MULLENWEG

Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly wi...
MATT BOMER

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere...
MATT DAMON

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
MATT DAMON

Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing peopl...
MATT DAMON

I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets...
MATT GONZALEZ

I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a ...
MATT KUCHAR

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business in...
MATT TAIBBI

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nost...
MATT RIDLEY

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as w...
MATT BOMER

Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.

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Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.

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