Anthony Storr Quotes

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.

I need to write to be happy.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

Art is a kind of illness.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.

Art saved my life.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself.

If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars!

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.