Author of quotes: Matt Haig. Page 3

He grinned, but I understood: years of servile submission to the two-legged ensure that he will treat me with some degree of respect due to the fact that I, too, walk on two legs.

Like religion, human history is full of depressing phenomena such as colonization, disease, racism, sexism, homophobia, class snobbery, environmental destruction, slavery, totalitarianism, military dictatorship, inventions that people do not know how to use (atomic bomb, Internet, semicolon), persecution of smart people, worship of idiots, boredom, despair, cyclical crises and spiritual catastrophes. And all this against the background of taking truly disgusting food.

He was fifteen years old. This meant that he belonged to a special subgroup of people called adolescents, whose main characteristics are reduced resistance to gravity, extensive vocabulary for expressing displeasure, poor orientation in space, regular masturbation, and the ability to endlessly eat grains.

Being human in itself is enough to drive you crazy.

She laughed, and her laugh was not at all like her voice. From such laughter, I want the air to cease to exist, through which these crazy waves spread and reach the ears.

The cow is a hoofed animal domesticated on Earth for numerous purposes, from which food, drinks, fertilizers and designer shoes are obtained. People raise cows on farms, and then cut their throats, butcher the carcass, arrange the meat in portions, freeze it, sell it and cook it. By doing all this, they apparently gain the right to rename the cow to beef. These words sound very different: apparently, when a person eats a cow, the last thing he wants is to think about this animal.

Marriage is truly an outlandish concept. Perhaps there are not enough magazines on the whole planet for me to understand it. The psychiatrist explained. I'm even more confused. Marriage is a "love union" meaning that two people who love each other stay together forever. But, in my opinion, this suggests that love is a rather weak connecting factor and it needs to be strengthened by marriage. In addition, the union can be broken with the help of the so-called divorce, from which it follows - as far as I can tell - that from a logical point of view there is no sense in marriage. More like self-deception.

People, as a rule, do not like crazy people, unless they can draw beautifully. Although even then the madmen are recognized only posthumously.

Later I realized that everything on this planet is wrapped in something. Packaged food. Bodies in clothes. Contempt in a smile. Everything is hidden.

Not only are you mortal, you also have to spend some of your precious, very limited time reading. It is not surprising that people are such an underdeveloped species: barely having time to read enough books to relatively reasonably dispose of information, an individual dies.

The bravest and craziest thing any creature can do is change.

... that silence is the biggest problem.

The popularity of mindfulness, meditation, and a minimalist approach to life is a visible response to a culture of overwhelm.

No matter how much we are surrounded by modern life, our psyche is still vulnerable. The number of mental disorders is constantly growing, and if we believe in the importance of our mental health, then we need - we really need - to understand what could have caused such changes.