nonbeing

We must not treat terms as as if they were simple: 'nonbeing' and 'being', for they are both compound.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

"The unrepentant sinner merely passes into nonbeing: which after all is what he wants, increasingly while he's alive; the prospect of new life being steadily more problematic and tiresome to him."

Ben Evans: The Real Horned Man: Exploring the Genius of Author James Lasdun

He was giraffe thin and much too tall but full of sinews; snapped proof of the nonbeing of Minnows with his Polaroid.

Minnows

Through acts of courage (a necessary companion to what Tillich calls "living faith"), we learn to resist hiding every time we see dark silhouettes -- those reminders of our own nonbeing -- cast on the valley floor.

Lynn Casteel Harper: Aging with Courage: The Beginning of a Living Faith

Protestant theologian Paul Tillich talks about our affirmation of life and faith as an act of courage in the perpetual face of "nonbeing."

Lynn Casteel Harper: Aging with Courage: The Beginning of a Living Faith

He believed that the cosmos was comprised of being, or substance, and nonbeing, or nothingness.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID

The painting's background was entirely black – the colour of mourning, the colour of night, the void between being and nonbeing.

The Mirror of Venus

Individuals, feeling their own limitations, experience anxiety at the threat of nonbeing.

On Masochism

Our passivity, our nonbeing, remits the Street/For rash risk and foreclosure's humiliations.

America After the Great Bust, 2009

What it amounts to, he says, is “limitless demand,” “the Baudelaire desire to get out—get out of human circumstances,” “a peculiar longing for nonbeing,” the “human being at the point where he attempted to obtain his release from being human.”

Archive 2009-03-01