38 Quotes by Anna Freud

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

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

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

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

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.

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.

I am glad that I do not have any children.