Viktor Frankl

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore-except his God.

Viktor Frankl

the most painful part of the beatings is the insult which they imply.

Viktor Frankl

The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure.

Viktor Frankl

The rift dividing good from evil, which goes through all human beings, reaches into the lowest depths and becomes apparent even on the bottom of the abyss which is laid open by the concentration camp.

Viktor Frankl

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity-even under the most difficult circumstances-to add a deeper meaning to his life.

Viktor Frankl

There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.

Viktor Frankl

There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose

Viktor Frankl

They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Viktor Frankl

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man – his courage and hope, or lack of them – and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect.

Viktor Frankl

Though it may afford momentary psychological relief, it is an illusion which physiologically, surely, must not be without danger.

Viktor Frankl