Whatever comes after death, even if it is nothingness, may be worse than continuing to live even with the most excruciating pain; on the other hand, it may be better than anything that life has to offer even to the healthy and successful.
The ultimate universal or enfolding whole has no determinate features; it is "nothingness" (mu).
Not because it is "nothingness" but because it is "no-thing", something so real and yet utterly impossible to turn into a "thing", a word, a concept, a description of an ineffable experience.
"The main subject of Dimoula's poetry is nothingness," Nikos Dimou, the writer, said in a telephone interview.
But if he's going to abdicate on politics — if this great, great speech and series of gestures is followed by a great nothingness — then it's just wind.
I was staring into that black nothingness – and horror of horrors, understood that it was not nothingness: there were shapes swimming about, things happening, creatures at large out there, and I was about to be pitched in among all that, unprepared, ignorant, totally incapable of coping.
The goal is nothingness, letting your subconscious mind take over, with its extrasensory powers of perception.
What if the ghost were nothingness?
"Death is nothingness," Hecuba declares amid all her sorrows.
'It is not good to talk about Zen because Zen is nothingness..
