Confronting the Nothing: The True Moral of the NeverEnding Story

G'mork explains that Fantasia is a land of human fantasy made up of the hopes and dreams of people on a distant planet, and Fantasia is dying because humans are beginning to lose hopes and forget to dream.

What is the Nothing?"

G'mork's response is telling. It's the emptiness that's left," the villain replies. It's like a despair, destroying this world."