Occupation: Psychologist Birth: December 3, 1895 Death: October 9, 1982
How can one know anything at all about people?.
Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are..
I am no longer afraid to say anything..
In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them..
My different personalities leave me in peace now..
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time..
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!.
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost..
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work..
I am glad that I do not have any children..
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be..
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugline….
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….
If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me..
The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother.
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..
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed..
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself..
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present..
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life..
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees..