If happiness lay in bodily pleasures, we would call oxen happy when they find vetch to eat. Fragments

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. Man's Search For Meaning

“Why did people want to rob him of the fame of fasting longer?”  A Hunger Artist

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think. Seagull