Austrian - Psychologist | December 3, 1895 - October 9, 1982
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!
Anna Freud
I AmStupidEveryoneUpStanding
Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
JoyYouEarthOnlyWhoWere
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
WorkFutureLivePastTrappedOur
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
AlwaysEverythingKnownMuchHow
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
FriendshipHateActingGoWhyFull
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.
GoodMyselfI AmPeopleMeOpinion
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.
MotherChildrenFeelEmotionsLost
If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
DayMeStupidWrongLooks
I am no longer afraid to say anything.
I AmSayAfraidAnythingLongerAm
I am glad that I do not have any children.
ChildrenI AmGladAnyAm
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.
LiveMeJudgeEnjoyWithoutBeing
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
MyselfEverythingBecauseFaults
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