Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

The meaning of life is life.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

Everybody has to solve that "meaning of life" and purpose question for themselves. Everybody does it their own way. I think you have to be thoughtful about the way that you're doing it. So I describe it as purpose. If you can think about leading a purposeful life - not just an accumulation but you actually make the world a better place - then I think in the grand scheme of the universe, that that explains our existence. If not, we're just passing through. We're grains of sand and we're blowing in the breeze.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.