"I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive. And death only happens to people who have been living."
"The idea that madness should be allowed to be madness."
"It underlines the idea we have hammered into us by the hundred thousand TV ads we have seen that everything can be fixed by consuming things."
"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 worth of darkness."
"The weight of Mum. The weight of being a son that had gone wrong."
"..empty time to stare worry in the face."
"..the least eventful phase of my life by quite a way."
"If you are scared when there is nothing to be scared of, eventually your brain has to give you things. And so that classic expression - 'the only thing to fear is fear itself' - becomes a kind of meaningless taunt."
"The house was silent so we tried to be too."
"When you can be yourself around someone, you project your (dis)satisfied self outwards."
"..I felt a funeral in my brain."
"Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life."
Haig, Matt. (2015). Reasons to stay alive. Edinburgh, England: Canongate Books Ltd.
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