Author of quotes: Viktor Frankl. Page 2

We'll even take the liberty to say that this the most radical challenge to myself, to which man is capable (that is, not only doubt about the meaning of life, but also acts against life), this fundamental ability of a person to choose suicide, that his freedom to decide whether to be a he even, distinguish man from all other creatures, that human way of being is different from the existence of animals.

... nobody has the right to do injustice, even those who from injustice suffered, and suffered very severely.

Uniqueness, uniqueness, inherent in every person, and define the meaning of each individual life. Unique he is unique that he can and should do - in your work, in creativity, in love. The realization of such indispensability creates a sense of responsibility for their own lives, to live it all to the end, to highlight in its entirety. People who realize their responsibility before another person or before it, assigned to it, will never give up on life. He knows why exists, and therefore, will find the strength to endure almost any how.

... daily and hourly life raises questions, and we have to answer them - not by talking or thinking, and action, proper behavior. She will have to live ultimately means to be responsible for the correct execution of the tasks life puts in front of everyone, for compliance with the requirements of the day and hour.

Man is always and everywhere opposed to fate, and this opposition gives him the opportunity to turn their suffering into inner achievement.

If life has any meaning, it has meaning and suffering. Suffering is part of life, just as fate and death. Suffering and death give the Genesis integrity.

Each of us was before "someone" or, at least, thought so. Here he was treated as if he's literally nobody. (It is clear that the camp situation could not shake the feelings of self-esteem those who have had a spiritual basis, but how many in the camp, and how many people actually have such a strong spirituality?)

If I'm not back home to your wife, and if you see her, you tell her then - listen carefully! First: every day we talked about it - remember? Second: I never loved anyone more than her. Third, the short time that we were together, was for me such happiness that outweighs all the bad, even what are to survive.

I always thought and claimed that one begins to understand why something happened in his life and that was for him for the better, only after some time, five or ten years. In the camp it would sometimes become clear in five or ten minutes.

... Man is sometimes quite small enough to literally get excited.

A kind of "filling" of the human soul suffering could be compared with what happens when some room is supplied with a gaseous substance. No matter how great was this room, the gas uniformly fills the entire volume. And misery fills the whole soul, takes possession of all consciousness, no matter how big or small.

The will to humor, try to see at least something of what is happening in a ridiculous light can be seen as a kind of art to live.

... Humor is also a weapon of the soul in the struggle for self-preservation. It is well known that humor more than anything else able to create for man a certain distance between himself and his situation to put him over the situation, though, as already mentioned, and briefly.

You're back on your mental dialogue with the person you love again send their complaints to heaven, again, for the thousandth time, looking for the answer to the question about the meaning of your suffering, your sacrifice, your slow death. But, in the last rush, everything in you is rebelling against the hopelessness of death, and you feel like your spirit breaks through this gray mist, through the hopelessness and meaninglessness, and to your question - does it make sense? - where it sounds solid, exultant "Yes!". And at this point in the window of a village house, dimly visible in the distance, theatrical scenery, suddenly lit light et lux lucet in tenebris - "the light shines in the darkness".