The best Quotes by Mark Haddon

But feelings are just having a picture on the screen in your head
of what is going to happen tomorrow or next year
or what might have happend instead of what did happen
and if it is a happy picture they smile,
and if it is a sad picture they cry.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

The best moments in life are the ones that make us smile when we think about them.

Its so hard to forget someone, who gave you so much to remember.

The truth is, it's all of your memories, the joyful ones and the heartbreaking ones, that make up who you are as a person.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Kids, you can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tight you hold on... it's already gone.

People spend more time talking than thinking.

As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.

Few people think, but many want to rule.

You do your best thinking when you're not thinking at all.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.

Stuff all my problems in that bong and I’m puffing strong
I been locked in my way of thinking now my cuffs are gone

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Emotions are most dangerous when silenced.

It's normal to understand something logically but emotionally feel something different.

Unlike people like her father, you, the Agency, you see life through a freaking keyhole because you let emotions cloud your judgment! Emotions are the cancer of the intellect!

Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever gonna feel, and from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new... just lesser versions of what I've already felt.

Emotion equals weakness.

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.