Author: R. D. Laing

Quotes

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

- R. D. Laing

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

- R. D. Laing

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.

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

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.

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.

- R. D. Laing

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

- R. D. Laing

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

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

- R. D. Laing

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

- 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.

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

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