There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. R D Laing
Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R D Laing
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. R D Laing
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. R D Laing
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. R D Laing
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. R D Laing
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. R D Laing
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. R D Laing