Hello Simjo,
The quotation goes like this: "There is only one thing I dread: not to
be worthy of my sufferings." This quotation is attributed to Fyodor
Dostoyevsky.
In Man's Search for Meaning on page 87, Victor Frankel quotes
Dostoyevsky: "There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my
sufferings."
Here is the link to the book Man's Search For Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671023373/qid=1075665352/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-2874989-9588862
By using Amazon?s ?search inside this book? feature, I located the
quotation on page 87.
?Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing I dread: not to be
worthy of my sufferings." These words frequently came to my mind after
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose
suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner
freedom cannot be lost. It can be said that they were worthy of the
their sufferings; the way they bore their suffering was a genuine
inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be
taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.?
- Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl (p.87)
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This quotation is also located in the book ?The Art of Resilience :
One Hundred Paths to Wisdom and Strength in an Uncertain World?
by Carol Orsborn
?There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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An Abortion That Should Have Been?
by Margaret Sholaas
Copyright April 1994 by McKenzie Study Center.
?Frankl wondered what made this last group different. As he documents
in his extraordinary book Man's Search For Meaning, he finally
concluded that these men had managed to find meaning in what was
happening to them. He quotes Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live can
bear with almost any how." These men had a why, and it was rooted in
something that could not be taken from them, since virtually
everything that could be taken from them had been. And what was this
thing, this anchor of the soul? Frankl quotes Dostoevski: "There is
only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings." It was the
love of goodness, the desire to be worthy, to respond rightly.?
McKenzie Study Center
http://www.mckenziestudycenter.org/philosophy/articles/abort.html
?The contemporary existentialist psychotherapist, Viktor Frankl, has
written what is for me the most significant book about suffering in
our century. His book, Man's Search for Meaning, describes his own
experience as a Jewish doctor in various Nazi concentration camps, and
he writes about suffering, as indeed do those few who write
authentically about this harrowing subject, from the inside, having
traversed the pit of hell and emerged bereft yet entire. He found that
those who survived this most terrible of all experiences, terrible
both by virtue of the unparalleled cruelty visited on the prisoners
and the vicious injustice of their indictment, owed their preservation
to the inner meaning that they found in their lives. He quotes
Nietzsche's words: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any
how." He also quotes Dostoievsky: "There is only one thing I dread:
not to be worthy of my sufferings." He describes the moving instance
of a young woman who was dying in a concentration camp.?
The Pain that Heals: Chapter 9
http://www.martinisrael.u-net.com/pain/chapter9.html
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I hope you find this helpful!
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
