What is "nonbeing"

Usage examples of "nonbeing".

Their verbal reticence has nothing of a traditional scruple or reverence before the option of being or nonbeing, which they are deciding on behalf of an unknown third.

Being which is no being yet is the Being beyond the nonbeing of all things.

Paradoxically, this ineffable state is at once contentless and all-containing, of nonbeing yet more than being, no ego and yet an extension of self that embraces the whole cosmos.

That was why she had opted for nonbeing during the long transits of her voyage, rather than slowtime in a fabrication.

It was not necessary to distinguish between being and nonbeing, between life and mere dead matter.

But these brief interregna were nothing compared to the billions of years of nonbeing between now and the end of the Universe, and the machineries which stored her self and gave her rebirth time and time again were real in a way that the Preservers were not.

Those who wish tragedy may seek to voyage across the ocean of nonbeing and enter into the countless universes which have not glimpsed the possibility of Omega.

According to the master, nothingness-the pregnant void, nonthinking, nondesiring, nonbeing, consciousness turned inward and so purged, so purified that it no longer distinguished itself-was a mental state devoutly to be wished.

Being and nonbeing and difficult and easy and high and low and long and short and before and after need, depend, create and define each other.

Pe Ell made himself a part of the shadows, just another piece of an endless stone landscape, a thing of vapor and nonbeing that not even the Rake could detect.

It cloaked him in a shroud of nonbeing that kept everything walled away and that was what he needed.

Paranor rests there now, brought back out of nonbeing by the magic of the Black Elfstone.

We are still in a limbo existence, somewhere between being and nonbeing, and we are waiting.

Wren hung suspended between being and nonbeing, between life and death.