nothingness• We stared into the black nothingness inside the cave.• How does an individual being emerge from nothingness to form itself around a physical body?• Yet it upholds every new moment by its constantpresence, and without it each moment would fall into nothingness.• That when it did, she believed that they would be obliterated totally, like midgesslapped into nothingness by a giant.• Howard struggles to suppress a sense of nothingness, of total unreality.• We shoot past, on the desert road, and get swallowed again by womb-warm quietnothingness.• It is the silence which finally sounds; nothingness which finally lives: earthspreads itself on itself.• The inattention, the nothingness, the neglecthurt them deeply.