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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Viktor E. Frankl
Suffering, Meaning Of Life, Mans Search For Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, Beacon Press

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

Viktor E. Frankl
Men, Challenges, Meaning Of Life
Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?

Viktor E. Frankl
Meaning Of Life, Finals, Lasts
Viktor E Frankl (2013). “Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust”, p.145, Random House

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

Viktor E. Frankl
Fate, Suffering And Death, Meaning Of Life
Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.56, Beacon Press

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

Viktor E. Frankl
Men, Meaning Of Life, Tasks
Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

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