The capacity to be alone is a prerequisite for the capacity ... - R.D. Laing

"The capacity to be alone is a prerequisite for the capacity to love."

R.D. Laing Solitude

Psychiatrist Philosopher British 1927–1989

More from R.D. Laing

"The greatest problem of our time is that we are dying without living."

"Insanity is a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."

"We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love."

"If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I don't know, I think I don't know."

"Sometimes being the best means being the loneliest."

"Solitude gives us time to reflect on what matters"

"I'm not good with people, never have been."

"I feel like I'm disappearing."