Quotes About Survival

But if I had to die there might at least be some sense in my death.

But Frankl's concern is less with the question of why most died than it is with the question of why anyone at all survived.

Tiempo después un prisionero me contó que el primer día de su internamiento tuvo la sensación, al marchar desde la estación del tren al campo en la larga columna de reclusos, de estar asistiendo a su propio funeral.

It was, therefore, in an attempt to save one's own skin that one literally tried to submerge into the crowd.

los autores coinciden en señalar que el número de no-judíos muertos es superior al de los judíos

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

distinguen tres fases psicológicas en la reacción de los reclusos a la vida en el campo: la fase inmediata al internamiento, la fase de adaptación y la fase que sigue a la liberación. ESTACIÓN DE FERROCARRIL DE AUSCHWITZ El síntoma característico de la primera fase es el shock. En

ilusión del indulto»; no perdían la esperanza de que serían liberados e imaginaban que aquello iba a terminar bien.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

There was neither time nor desire to consider moral or ethical issues. Every man wad controlled by one thought only: to keep himself alive for the family waiting for him at home, and to save his friends. With no hesitation, therefore, he would arrange for another prisoner, another "number," to take his place in the transport.

Regarding our "provisional existence" as unreal was in itself an important factor in causing the prisoners to lose their hold on life; everything in a way became pointless.

I was horrified, but this was just as well, because step by step we had to become accustomed to a terrible and immense horror.

Mientras esperábamos la ducha se nos hizo patente nuestra desnudez, en su sentido literal: éramos solamente un cuerpo. Nada más. Solo poseíamos la existencia desnuda. ¿Qué

The prisoner of Auschwitz, in the first phase of shock, did not fear death. Even the gas chambers lost their horrors for him after the first few days—after all, they spared him the act of committing suicide.

One literally became a number: dead or alive—that was unimportant; the life of a "number" was completely irrelevant.

We had literally lost the ability to feel pleased and had to relearn it slowly. Psychologically, what was happening to the liberated prisoners could be called "depersonalization." Everything appeared unreal, unlikely, as in a dream.

El hombre es ese ser capaz de inventar las cámaras de gas de Auschwitz, pero también es el ser que ha entrado en esas mismas cámaras con la cabeza erguida y el Padrenuestro o el Shemá Israel en los labios.

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how," could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic efforts regarding prisoners.

any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal. Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how," could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic efforts regarding prisoners.

Viktor E. Frankl

at the lectern in a large, beautiful, warm and bright hall. I was about to give a lecture to an interested audience on, "Psychotherapeutic Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (the actual title I later used at that congress41

Under the same conditions, those who were oriented toward the future, toward a meaning that waited to be fulfilled—these persons were more likely to survive. Nardini and Lifton, two American military psychiatrists

Tilly must have been among them.

Ä°ddia ediyorum ki dünyada en kötü koÅŸullarda bile hayatta kalabilmek için hayat?n bir anlam? olduÄŸu bilgisinden daha etkili olabilecek bir ÅŸey yoktur. Nietzchhe`nin ÅŸu sözleri çok ÅŸey söyler: YaÅŸamak için bir nedeni olan her türlü nas?l`a katlanabilir.