R.D. Laing

"We will be dying, and then we will be dead."

"True hope is based on truth."

"Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont."

"We are dying into life."

"The human condition is to be a conduit of transcendence."

"There is no such thing as a single man."

"Self-consciousness is the curse of the age."

"We are living in an age of loneliness."

"The more one attempts to live in the world of images, the more one is destroyed by them."

"We fear our deepest feelings."

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that a man can alter his life by altering his way of thinking."

"Society highly values its normal man."

"Madness and poetry speak the language of the beyond."

"What we call normal is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, and introjection."

"We are all murderers and prostitutes by nature, given the circumstances."

"The original trauma is the loss of integrity."

"Authenticity is the acknowledgment of reality."

"To adapt to this world is to become mad."

"Love is the most natural response to another human being."

"We are split beings."

"The breakdown of a self is the breakthrough of a self."

"Laing's paradox: the more we are made aware of our essential loneliness, the more we understand what bonds us together."

"Existential freedom is not a given; it must be won."

"All of us are potentially mad."

"The human being is a contradiction."

"We must get back to reality."

"Suffering, if we can survive it, is transmutable into wisdom."

"Only the person who has given up the desire to persuade can persuade."

"The moment one becomes aware of the meaning of existence, one becomes aware of loneliness."

"We are born into a kind of death."