R.D. Laing

Quotes

• “Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world—the interpersonal world, and the ...”
• “Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are...”
• “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, i...”
• “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 ...”
• “Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as ensla...”
• “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 di...”
• “We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”
• “Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.”