Anna Freud Quotes - 9quotes.com

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Written by Anna Freud
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Written by Anna Freud
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
Written by Anna Freud
Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
Written by Anna Freud
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
Written by Anna Freud
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
Written by Anna Freud
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
Written by Anna Freud
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
Written by Anna Freud
Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
Written by Anna Freud
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
Written by Anna Freud
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
Written by Anna Freud
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
Written by Anna Freud
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
Written by Anna Freud
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
Written by Anna Freud
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
Written by Anna Freud
If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
Written by Anna Freud
I am no longer afraid to say anything.
Written by Anna Freud
I am glad that I do not have any children.
Written by Anna Freud
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
Written by Anna Freud
How can one know anything at all about people?
Written by Anna Freud
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
Written by Anna Freud
Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
Written by Anna Freud
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
Written by Anna Freud
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
Written by Anna Freud
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
Written by Anna Freud

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