From Man's Search for Meaning :

"A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved."

In this excerpt, Frankl talks about how, in the midst of his suffering, thinking about his wife and his love for her allowed him to transcend his current situation and experience a kind of joy in which it didn't even matter whether his wife was dead or alive. I find it telling that a man stripped of everything can find some solace and refuge simply with the thought of love.

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