“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is...” — R. D. Laing Quote

“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”

“The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.”

“Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.”

“The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.”

“Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.”

“There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.”