We must not treat terms as as if they were simple: 'nonbeing' and 'being', for they are both compound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

And in this death we are offered nothing but nonbeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sebond Essay, Conclusion « So Many Books] Reference

"A life on the edge of nonbeing tastes sharp and sweet.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ill Met By Moonlight]

Is there any way in which being could derive from nonbeing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binary Oppositions: Good or Bad?] Reference

It falls neither within the predicate of nonbeing nor of being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Please Tell Me What “God” Means] Reference

It is for this reason that we say even of non-being that it is nonbeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

Thus, can we not truly say that time is only as it tends toward nonbeing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference

An intelligent being would not fear death or nonbeing, which are inevitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Covergent Series]

So it is written: ‘Not to perceive anything in terms of being and nonbeing,’ etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pai Chaing's Instantaneous Illumination] Reference

For an instant Wren hung suspended between being and nonbeing, between life and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elf Queen of Shannara]

Being or that which is, cannot arise from nonbeing; and what is, cannot cease to exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION] Reference

Individuals, feeling their own limitations, experience anxiety at the threat of nonbeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Masochism] Reference

Paranor rests there now, brought back out of nonbeing by the magic of the Black Elfstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elf Queen of Shannara]

Our passivity, our nonbeing, remits the Street/For rash risk and foreclosure's humiliations.    From Wordnik.com.  [America After the Great Bust, 2009] Reference

We are still in a limbo existence, somewhere between be - ing and nonbeing, and we are waiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elf Queen of Shannara]

A goal of mine is to gradually enlarge the gardens, too, so that the lawn vanishes to nonbeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Front Porch Café....] Reference

Q: There is a sutra which says that not to perceive anything in terms of being or nonbeing is true deliverance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pai Chaing's Instantaneous Illumination] Reference

The material world itself is a shadowy reflection of the celestial world; pure matter itself is next to nonbeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE] Reference

He was giraffe thin and much too tall but full of sinews; snapped proof of the nonbeing of Minnows with his Polaroid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnows] Reference

When inspired, they practice their creative arts, the processes by means of which passage from nonbeing to being is brought about.    From Wordnik.com.  [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference

The painting's background was entirely black – the colour of mourning, the colour of night, the void between being and nonbeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Venus] Reference

Protestant theologian Paul Tillich talks about our affirmation of life and faith as an act of courage in the perpetual face of "nonbeing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynn Casteel Harper: Aging with Courage: The Beginning of a Living Faith] Reference

The state in which a being is aware of its possible nonbeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [MentalPolyphonics] Reference

Fat judges it to be "rationality at the service of … nonbeing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

The mystery of nonbeing, or death, is what gave rise to primitive myths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yes Weekly] Reference

How thin was the line separating life from death and being from nonbeing!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Or nonbeing over being?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binary Oppositions: Good or Bad?] Reference

What about with nonbeing over being?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binary Oppositions: Good or Bad?] Reference

For ‘nonbeing’ also has many senses, since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

As Parmenides said: "Being is, nonbeing is not.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference

For being and nonbeing arise together.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Utah] Reference

“negativity,” or “nonbeing.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laozi] Reference

A synthesis of being and nonbeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME] Reference

In adults, an excessive fear of nonbeing. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference