109 Quotes by R.D. Laing

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we’ll be shaking tomorrow.

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.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

How dare you have fun when Christ died on the cross for you! Was he having fun?

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

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.

If I don’t know I don’t know, I think I know. If I don’t know I know I know, I think I don’t know.