The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.
Our life is full of empty space.
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.
An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.
A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.
There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.
Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.
