Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

The meaning of life is life.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?

I grew up in a small industrial suburb of Haifa in Israel. As far back as I remember, I was interested in big questions. Who are we? What are we doing here? But the chances to discuss philosophy were quite thin on the ground.

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

Is there life before death? - that is the question!

What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?

Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

If you have a little inteligence, sooner or later the question is bound to arise: What is the point of it all? Why? It is impossible to avoid the question for long. And if you are very intelligent, it is always there, persistently there, hammering on your heart for the answer: Give me the answer! - Why?

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.