Anthony Storr Quotes

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
Anthony Storr

Place, Wrong, Between

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
Anthony Storr

Relationship, Someone, Real

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
Anthony Storr

Enough, Beyond, Bold

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.
Anthony Storr

Best, Book, Writing

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.
Anthony Storr

Morning, Experience, Once

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Anthony Storr

Marriage, Happiness, End

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.
Anthony Storr

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
Anthony Storr

Able, Since, Fall

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
Anthony Storr

Time, Sympathy, Done

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
Anthony Storr

Mad, Sane, Madder

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Anthony Storr

Except, Exception, Homo

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: May 8, 1920

Died: March 17, 2001

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