Nothingness

A big, complicated nothingness writhes at the heart of Dean’s entire project, a nothingness where the subject should be.

And Taylor’s 2022 song “” is all about the joy and fulfillment that she finds in exactly that — nothingness.

At 5 p.m. on the banks, a guide leading the crossing squints to carefully scan the stretched-out expanse of nothingness that lies ahead, neck slightly craned forward, walking stick in hand.

His favorite insult is calling him ‘nothingness’ because that’s what the first character of his name ‘Mu’ supposedly stood for.

And the nothingness, I’d started to notice, made my urge to do bad things more extreme.

Rather, G-d brought into existence from absolute nothingness a very minuscule basic material which, because of its tininess, seemed as though it didn’t exist at all.

Until finally fading into the black nothingness only a soul-voided body could see.

Not until we have reduced ourselves to nothingness can we conquer the evil in us….

Only an hour ago the album was about eventually, inevitably vanishing into nothingness.

Actually seeing a black hole, however, seemed nearly impossible: From our tiny planet, how can we find what would appear to us to be a small black spot of nothingness in the vastness of space?

Anyway whatever cabinet, whoever is in it, it's all just nothingness.

For those who have passed through the tunnel of nothingness and need no grand purpose to survive, every cut on this porker called life is fine.

Scripture says it from one end to the other, that when we worship vanity (nothingness) we become vain (empty).

After all, one reason we keep busy is to avoid ourselves, the secret fear that without our work or rigid schedules we are nothing, empty vessels, floating adrift on an ocean of nothingness.

And I don’t know about you, but to me, “nothingness” doesn’t sound like a particularly structurally sound material.

An imposter who would suddenly retreat into this auto-pilot mode of nothingness, just floating the ball across, mind and body seemingly not there.

Speaking of that, I’m trying to remind myself that nothingness is necessary.

You stand on the edge of the dark nothingness, fascinated and perhaps a little tempted to reach out a foot and test it.

After nearly wiping out the elk and bison to nothingness, this region has taken to raising bison alongside cattle for their meat and at an enormous profit, making them into burgers and steaks.

An interesting point in his speculations is the insistence that nothingness is something positive.