Anna Freud Quotes

Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child

~ Anna Freud

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

~ Anna Freud

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

~ Anna Freud

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

~ 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?

~ Anna Freud

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

~ Anna Freud