Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

Whether you're a man or a woman, life can be very, very difficult and confusing and desperate, and it's life-enhancing to know that somehow, there is a way through it.

Hope is everything. Once you've lost that, you don't really have much.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

Without hope we are lost.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.