Quotes by Anthony Storr

Anthony Storr

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship — a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Expression

Giving

Marriage

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

Life

Love

World

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Adults

Needs

Order

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

Bipolar

Lines

Want

If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

Creative

Men

Writing

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Imagination

Solitude

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Emotional

Solitude

Support

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

Inspiration

Motivational

Sports

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

Love

Money

Relationship

It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

Mean

People

Personality

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Accepted

Adults

Artist

Bipolar

Bridges

Creative

Desire

Done

Emotional

Enough

Expression

Giving

Humanity

Imagination

Inspiration

Inspirational

Life

Lines

Long

Love

Marriage

May

Mean

Members

Men

Mind

Missing

Money

Motivational

Needs

Numbers

Order

Originality

People

Personality

Pieces

Relationship

Religious

Rodents

Solitude

Sports

Support

Sympathy

Tea

Want

World

World Religions

Writing

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Quotes by Anthony Storr

Anthony Storr

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

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

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

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

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