Annie > Annie's Quotes

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
― Olin Miller

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“This is for anyone in your dream job facing perils no one talks about. You are not alone. When you exist in spaces that weren’t built for you, remember sometimes that just being you is the revolution.”
― Elaine Welteroth

“What doesn't kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your days. What doesn't kill you can make you scared to leave your house, or even your bedroom, and have you trembling, or mumbling incoherently, or leaning with your head on a window pane, wishing you could return to the time before the thing that didn't kill you.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“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, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. Which is to say, don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Never say 'pull yourself together' or 'cheer up' unless you're also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury of happiness. They just want to feel an absence of pain.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Even more staggeringly, depression is a disease so bad that people are killing themselves because of it in a way they do not kill themselves with any other illness. Yet people still don’t really think depression really is that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don’t become them.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Stigma is particularly cruel for depressives, because stigma affects thoughts and depression is a disease of thoughts.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Monsters are real,” Stephen King said. “And ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive