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.

Better for such a man to precipitate himself on to the utmost goal: for then perhaps he may in the repose of intellectual activity feel the nothingness of his prize, or the wretchedness of it; and then perhaps the inward yearning after a religion may make him ask;"Have I not mistaken the road at the outset?

No strength I find in mine own feebleness To change or life or love or use or fate, Unless Thy heavenly guidance come, though late, Which only helps and stays our nothingness.

He lets us do this that we may learn our nothingness, our weakness, and turn, disgusted, from ourselves to Him.

As physical mechanism, it is that which is most palpable, and undeniable by any, because it is that which lies nearest the nothingness

He showed us the nothingness, the laughableness, the flat and faded folly of those imitations of the French theatre, which were in turn imitated from the Greek.

Where masonry walls had been was a vast junk heap; where stout magazines had been bedded down in hard concrete was a crater; where strong barracks had stood was a jumbled, shuffled nothingness.

I believe that this does not signify our nothingness or our misfortune, but, on the contrary, our realisation and our deification, since everything is within us.

What I had felt vaguely before and stifledthe nothingness of life, the inevitableness of satietyI repudiated utterly, now that they were personified in you; I would not recognize the fact of their existence.

He will teach, with something more than official conviction, the nothingness of earthly things; and he will feel something more than private disgust if his meritorious efforts in directing man's attention to another world are not rewarded by substantial preferment in this.

His liberty, of which I cannot doubt, shows his perfection; and his dependence argues the nothingness from which he was drawn.

We watched ... and wert thou nothingness?

Above rows of multicolored and gilded books that covered the walls, he saw some great plaster heads with towering foreheads and vacant eyes that seemed always to be contemplating an immense nothingness.

His hand trembled somewhat as he now opened this window, to face gray sweetly-scented nothingness.