568 Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

People tend to see only the stubble fields of transitoriness but overlook and forget the full granaries of the past into which they have brought the harvest of their lives: the deeds done, the loves loved, and last but not least, the sufferings they have gone through with courage and dignity.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

We also do not judge the life history of a particular person by the number of pages in the book that portrays it but only by the richness of the content it contains.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

Ficamos conhecendo o ser humano como talvez nenhuma geração humana antesde nós. O que é, então, um ser humano? É o ser que sempre decide o que ele é. É oser que inventou as câmaras de gás; mas é também aquele ser que entrou nascâmaras de gás, ereto, com uma oração nos lábios.

Ficamos conhecendo o ser humano como talvez nenhuma geração humana antes de nós. O que é, então, um ser humano? É o ser que sempre decide o que ele é. É o ser que inventou as câmaras de gás; mas é também aquele ser que entrou nas câmaras de gás, ereto, com uma oração nos lábios.