38 Quotes by Anna Freud

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

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.

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.

How can one know anything at all about people?

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

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!

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.