Anthony Storr Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.

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

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

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

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.

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

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.