All the conflict of faith and doubt, the distress roused by the idea of nihility, the anger he had felt at the unjust sufferings of mankind, had been swept away by her fresh cool hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4] Reference

Embrace the solace that accompanies the wave of dark nihility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Door] Reference

Here there was more for her than kyomu, that which Kyoki preached: nihility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

Stirring where neither time nor space existed, where endless nihility was all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Triumphant]

I never can forget the blank nihility of all existence that dreadful moment when I stood fumbling for what was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference

Has any one been ever able to answer his question: Speed an arrow from the limits of the world — will it fall into nothing, into nihility?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

Visions of swirling galaxies filled his head, among which he and his friends and the Commonwealth entire were so insignificant as to constitute little but nihility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flinx's Folly]

Nishitani thus explained the personal encounter with nihilism as an experience of the extreme relative nothingness of “nihility” or “vacuous nothingness” (kyomu), and for him the central task of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kyoto School] Reference

Yet the real breakthrough to a non-dualistic reaffirmation of the self and the world only occurs when the relative nothingness of nihility is in turn broken through to a genuine experience of Absolute Nothingness or true Emptiness on the “field of śûnyatâ.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kyoto School] Reference

We treat it as a positive nihility, "a barrier from which all our batted balls of being rebound.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Studies] Reference

Brassfield to his much-to-be-desired nihility: how to recover Amidon from his relapse into occultation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain] Reference

When we reach the latter, we feel an almost irresistible inclination to class it with spirit, or with nihility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

Certainly, to give up the algebraic symbol, because A or B is often a cover for ideal nihility, would be unwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference

I was sleeping the eternal, dreamless sleep so deeply; I was at last enjoying such sweet repose amidst the delights of nihility!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2] Reference

Nor is there any one, I suppose, who has passed the meridian of life, who has not at some moments felt the nihility of all things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The moral goal, the highest good, is not a personal possession, but a surrendering of personality to the impersonal divine essence or to nihility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference

And it was the sky then which became all purple and gold, displaying the infinite placidity of a supernatural radiance above the earth which faded into nihility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2] Reference

He had once visited a coal pit in Belgium, and he here found the same narrow passages, the same heavy, stifling atmosphere, the same nihility of darkness and silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2] Reference

Surely Warburton could never have wooed by kisses and won, or he would not have flounder-flatted so just and humorous, nor less pleasing than humorous, an image into so profound a nihility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference

Buddhists, the essence of all existence in general is nihility; hence the ground-character of morality is self-denial, world-renunciation, — a passive endurance instead of creative activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference

No one has better expressed the anguish of a troubled and despairing soul, such as we find in the old harp-player in Wilhelm Meister, or the splendid nihility of certain poems of Michelangelo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musicians of To-Day]

He spoke in this fashion, not as a believer who aspires to the delicious reward of eternal life, but as a weary man who expects to fall into nihility, to enjoy the great everlasting peace of being no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2] Reference

Realization of where and who she was came back to her with much more than the usual neutral relief at slipping into one's own personality as into the first protection available against the vague horror of nihility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference

In the depths of that ocean of nihility all sunk and vanished, Rome's four and twenty centuries, the ancient Palatine and the modern Quirinal, even the giant dome of St. Peter's, blotted out from the sky by the flood of gloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1] Reference

But nihility is inconsistent with the existence of living, reasoning -- I know not what to call them -- uniting in themselves, in a state of commenced synthesis or imminent dissolution, all the antagonistic attributes of being.    From Wordnik.com.  [System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery] Reference

“an absolute negativity, inasmuch as it is a standpoint that has negated and thereby transcended nihility, which was itself the transcendence-through-negation of all being.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kyoto School] Reference

But show unto me Thy gentleness and loving kindness, O Lord! restore unto me the slumber I have earned, and let me sleep once more amid the delights of Thy nihility. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2] Reference

“field of nihility” to the “field of śûnyatâ” (see NKC X, 109 and 122ff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kyoto School] Reference

“field of nihility.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kyoto School] Reference