Meanings of nonbeing in English

That poor life was consigned to an eternity of nonbeing.

It was rationality at the service of -well, he thought, at the service of nonbeing.

He makes a voyage to nonbeing and back.

Andrew's imagination might only have gotten as far as the yearned-for relief, not as far as his own nonbeing.

This distinction between something and nothing-thispivotal separation between being and nonbeing-isquite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths.

I have lived an eternity of nonbeing, of shadowlife, of scavenging and horror beyond all words because I have had no choice!

There was another mind glow, one which clung to her even more desperately than she had hungered for the peace of nonbeing.

He who words exceed his acts, know verily, that his nonbeing is better than his being, his death better than his life.

If it be the cause of enmity, bloodshed and hatred, its nonbeing is better than its being, its nonexistence better than its existence.