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Any experience of reality is indescribable!
— 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
Few books today are forgivable.
— R.D. Laing
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.
— 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
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
No one acts or experiences in a vacuum ...
— R.D. Laing