Viktor E. Frankl Quotes


In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.


Citations

Frankl, Viktor E. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006, p. 40.

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Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor E. Frankl
  • Born: March 26, 1905
  • Died: September 2, 1997
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Profession: Neurologist, Psychiatrist

Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor.