Anna Freud Quotations

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

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.

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

How can one know anything at all about people?

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.

Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.