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Any experience of reality is indescribable! — R.D. Laing

If the blind must lead the blind, it is as well
that the leader knows he is. — R.D. Laing

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. — R.D. Laing

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know. — R.D. Laing

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic. — R.D. Laing

Outside the window, people threw dinner parties. — Olivia Laing

When it hurts,' wrote the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, 'we return to the banks of certain rivers, — Olivia Laing

Loneliness grows around them, like mould or fur, a prophylactic that inhibits contact, no matter how badly contact is desired. — Olivia Laing

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction. — R.D. Laing

Few books today are forgivable. — R.D. Laing

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad. — R.D. Laing

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds. — R.D. Laing

Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives. — J.G. Ballard

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. — R.D. Laing

The way out is through the door you came in. — R.D. Laing

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies. — R.D. Laing

Physically, Echo Spring is nothing more than a nickname for a liquor cabinet, drawn from the brand of bourbon it contains. — Olivia Laing

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. — R.D. Laing

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons. — R.D. Laing

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2. — R.D. Laing

These days people spend more time trying to convince the world that their life is perfect than they spend on actually improving their lives. — Saccheen Laing

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie. — R.D. Laing

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. — R.D. Laing

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. — R.D. Laing

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is. — R.D. Laing

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal. — R.D. Laing

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense. — R.D. Laing

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities. — R.D. Laing

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum ... — R.D. Laing

A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer. — R.D. Laing