Top 10 R.D. Laing Quotes



Perfection is something we should all strive for. It’s a duty and a joy to perfect one’s nature… The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.

 

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

 

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.

 

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

 

You don’t love me.. Believe me! You don’t love anyone. How could you? And no one loves you. How could they? Except me, it’s only because I love you that I’m telling you all this. I Love you.. R. D. Laing.

 

If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know.

 

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

 

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

 

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

 

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game

 

 

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