Author: Anna Freud

Quotes

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

- Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

- 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?

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

- 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.

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.

- Anna Freud

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

- Anna Freud

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

- Anna Freud

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

- 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.

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.

- Anna Freud

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