the idea that unconsciously we all long for death, for non-being
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Being and non-being will merge and be complementary to each other.
Like Laurel Schneider, Anne-Marie Korte establishes that the question of the subject arises not from fear of non-being but from a quest for being.
It slipped from the screen, back into non-being, and shall not be seen again by any soul in this world.
We are scared because of our notions of birth and death, increasing and decreasing, being and non-being.
One of the first things to go was metaphysics, a branch of philosophy that deals with questions of being and non-being.
We cannot, in his view, evade the radical Otherness of non-being; hence the obligation of the living is to fight for life at all costs.
Man's only hope lies in ‘final redemption from the misery of volition and existence into the painlessness of non-being and non-willing.’
For many people, the fear of non-being, of no longer existing, is the chief reason to fear death.
The ceremonial elements of his late works, though unmistakable, strove to dissolve the barriers between being and non-being, between activity and nature, between man and God.