But it is his weakness to be proud; he derives, from a comparison of his own extraordinary mind with the dwarfish intellects that surround him, an intense apprehension of the nothingness of human life.

" "Talk away," I responded rather sullenly, for I expected a long sing-song about my good-for-nothingness in generala subject of which I was heartily tired.

Before that thought we shrink into the nothingness from whence He called us out at first.

His head felt oddly light, as if it were full of air, a bubble of prismatic colours that might burst into nothingness at any moment.

There is a vague, misty period at the beginning of every life, as memory rises from mere nothingness to full strength, when it is not easy to say whether the things remembered may not have been heard from the lips of others.

I asked of Him, as the dowry of my spiritual marriage, crosses, contempt, confusion, disgrace, and ignominy; and I prayed Him to give me grace to entertain dispositions of littleness and nothingness with regard to everything else."

It seemed as if I moved towards a point between Orion's belt and sword; and the void about that region opened vaster and vaster every second, an incredible gulf of nothingness into which I was falling.

But thou hast not, as I, this vista of eternal nothingness before thee; thou dost not suffer with this death-like cold, as I. SATAN.

So the wall of constraint crumbled to the nothingness out of which it was built, and the two came close together again in that perfect companionship that may choose whatever medium the mood of man may direct, and still hold taut the bond of their friendship.

She discoursed in sentences which began coherently, but frayed out soon into nothingness under the stress of inner thought.

What appears under the forms of time, space, and casuality, and vanishes again, and in reality is nothing, and reveals its nothingness by deaththis vicious and fatal appearance is the will.

All previous efforts paled into nothingness beside the outbursts of cheers that followed each other like claps of thunder up and down the long bank of fluttering color.