Our Main Motivation For Living Is Our

I Had Wanted Simply To Convey To The Reader By Way Of Concrete Example That Life Holds A Potential Meaning Under Any Conditions, Even The Most Miserable Ones. And I Thought That If The Point Were Demonstrated In A Situation As Extreme As That In A Concentration Camp, My Book Might Gain A Hearing. I Therefore Felt Responsible For Writing Down What I Had Gone Through, For I Thought It Might Be Helpful To People Who Are Prone To Despair.

When A Man Cannot Find Meaning, He Numbs Himself With Pleasure.

View Life As A Series Of Movie Frames, The Ending And Meaning May Not Be Apparent Until The Very End Of The Movie, And Yet, Each Of The Hundreds Of Individual Frames Has Meaning Within The Context Of The Whole Movie.

The One Thing You Can't Take Away From Me Is The Way I Choose To Respond To What You Do To Me.

Fundamentally, Therefore, Any Man Can, Even Under Such Circumstances, Decide What Shall Become Of Him—mentally And Spiritually. He May Retain His Human Dignity Even In A Concentration Camp.