So he remained rooted in this oppressive sense of his own nothingness.

What a consciousness of his own nothingness, and of his sins!

A galling sense of impotence swept him and he raged at his own nothingness.

I realized my own nothingness, Thou gavest me Thy peace.

Only in contemplating God's omnipotence and his own nothingness can man find solace and peace.

Was it not a covert taunt at my wealth and his own nothingness in the house?

If it has missed happiness and duty, it has at least felt its own nothingness, and implored its pardon.

He felt his own nothingness.

None can be more foolish than he who thinks himself shrewd, nor wiser than he who knows his own nothingness.

No spectacle can be more humiliating to man's pride than this; nothing can give him a more degrading sense of his own nothingness.

Nay, I must confess, these lights on my own nothingness are of more good to my soul than lights on matters of Faith.

I feel less abased by my own nothingness, more emboldened to approach and say, 'Not so far apart from me: thou too hast suffered.'

But the artist in him was awakened almost at the same moment; his looks wandered in spite of her piteous candour and his own nothingness.