R. D. Laing Quotes
Best 9 Other Quotes by R. D. Laing
“Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.”
“Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”
“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.”
“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 effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”
“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.”
“Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”
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“They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!”
