It is a state of being which is as it were non-being.

Now ignorance is a non-being, since it is a privation of knowledge.

Now nothing is opposed to the idea of being except non-being.

Being in its possibility is no more non-being than is reality.

The fairy world is an ephemeral place of non-being, High Lord.

And they are just rendered into non-being, what they do to stay alive.

Ultimately, only it could define its own state of non-being.

Again, evil, since it is a privation and a non-being, cannot differentiate any being.

But non-being cannot be a difference, according to the Philosopher (Metaph.

It is difficult indeed to distinguish between pure being and pure non-being as a category.

The softness of an uncertain voice awakened her from the withdrawal in a capsule of non-being.

He thus combined two characters, formless form, immortal and mortal, being and non-being, motion and rest.

But "non-being" does not require being as its subject.

If being and non-being are both necessary to the presence of either, neither shall claim priority or preference.

Some define existence as the expression of reality or being, and non-existence as non-being, imagining that death is annihilation.

Thus matter is to Aristotle a much more positive substratum than to Plato, who declares it to be pure non-being.