Sentence examples for nothingness I from inspiring English sources

In the midst of our "nothingness," I could smell the stench of the nearby Mississippi.

I let go, and down into the black nothingness I slid.

Anyway, four decades after my uncle Hector walked into nothingness, I decided that we needed to bury him.

"Faced with that nothingness, I felt a great nostalgia for human culture," he recalled from the offices of G. K. Design, the firm he co-founded in Tokyo in 1952.

But the one thing that can bridge that vast gap between two people - or seem to - is love, though it's always contingent, a matter of chance: "even in this nothingness I found you; / I was lucky in the timing of my birth".

I do not experience nothingness as a universal or absolute state in the fear of death, Rosenzweig suggests, but rather I experience my nothingness—I experience nothingness as a particular "something" that threatens me and me alone.

Doing nothing, for me, means that after a bout of doing-nothingness, I can't cross anything off my "to do" list.

Instead, I was just lying around, while time either contracted to nothingness (suddenly I'd realize that I'd spent three hours napping or doing nothing) or lingered like a punishment.

As a Zen Buddhist, I've done plenty of meditating on nothingness, but I was startled to read that I could also "marinate" on it, as Alex Williams suggests in his March 3 article "Edith Wharton's World: Recast for 'Gossip Girl.' " Interesting!

I'll wake up in some floaty-grey-nothingness, and I sure hope I don't wake up hungry, because I won't have anything to eat.

"It was a celebration of nothingness, so I was confused".