Anthony Storr Quotes

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

  Anthony Storr

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

  Anthony Storr

• 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

• 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

• Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

  Anthony Storr

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

  Anthony Storr

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

  Anthony Storr

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

  Anthony Storr

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

  Anthony Storr

• 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

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

  Anthony Storr

Anthony Storr (11)

Birth:	18th May, 1920
Death:	17th March, 2001
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Psychiatrist

About

Anthony Storr was born in London. He was an English psychiatrist and author. Storr was educated at Winchester College, Christ's College, and Westminster Hospital. In 1974, Storr moved from private practice to a teaching appointment at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford, until his retirement in 1984. He married twice, to Catherine Cole in 1942 and writer Catherine Peters in 1970 after the first marriage ended in divorce.

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