Nonbeing

We must not treat terms as as if they were simple: 'nonbeing' and 'being', for they are both compound. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"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." ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He believed that the cosmos was comprised of being, or substance, and nonbeing, or nothingness. ❋ Alex Bellos (2010)

The painting's background was entirely black – the colour of mourning, the colour of night, the void between being and nonbeing. ❋ Megan Arkenberg (2010)

Protestant theologian Paul Tillich talks about our affirmation of life and faith as an act of courage in the perpetual face of "nonbeing." ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was giraffe thin and much too tall but full of sinews; snapped proof of the nonbeing of Minnows with his Polaroid. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

OK, Plato's Beard is the idea that nonbeing has to be in some sense or we can't talk about things that don't exist. ❋ Darren Naish (2007)

A goal of mine is to gradually enlarge the gardens, too, so that the lawn vanishes to nonbeing. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Poke what you please, and that is between you and your God or nonbeing of choice, but the facts are the facts, and nature does not care about mine or your opinions or our respective desires that do not create heirs to carry them on and build upon them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Justice Blackmun thought it permissible for the state to favor human activity that is specially concerned with “such matters of conscience as life and death, good and evil, being and nonbeing, right and wrong.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

Individuals, feeling their own limitations, experience anxiety at the threat of nonbeing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our passivity, our nonbeing, remits the Street/For rash risk and foreclosure's humiliations. ❋ Unknown (2009)