Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

I would rather be dead than empty

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.

I am nothing, and not even that.

Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples, some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty. That's the point I was at before I was able to make.

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

Nobody wants to have meaninglessness in their lives. You probably see a lot of people living their lives that don't have a whole lot of meaning that you can perceive, and you don't want that for yourself.

...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.