Top 25 Quotes by Anthony Storr of 34 - Page 2

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

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

Book, Writing, Way

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.

Anthony Storr

Writing, Men, Creative

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

Anthony Storr

Depression, Men, Odds

Anthony Storr (1990). “Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind”

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

Fall, Able, Derivatives

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.

Anthony Storr

Bridges, Creative, Needs

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

Anthony Storr

Motivational, Sports, Inspiration

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

Anthony Storr

Jealousy, Loss, Thinking

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

Anthony Storr

Men, Creative, May