Anna Freud Quotes
- The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother
- Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are.
- It is there all the time.
- Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
- If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
- We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
- Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
- How can one know anything at all about people?
- I am no longer afraid to say anything.
- I am glad that I do not have any children.
- 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.
- If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
- Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
- Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
- 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!
- Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
- I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
- 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.
- Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
- My different personalities leave me in peace now.