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

Quote by Anna Freud

Topics: Friendship Quotes

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

How can one know anything at all about people?

How can one know anything at all about people?

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

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

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid...

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid...

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within....

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within....

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within....

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within....

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way...

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way...

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

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

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished,...

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished,...

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

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

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

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

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's...

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's...

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

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.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

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

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