Anthony Storr Quotes

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

I teach that all men are mad.

It's a tricky thing to play mental illness or being connected to a higher sensibility.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.