"I Cannot Reconcile Myself to Being Nothing"

David Rieff, son of Susan Sontag, quotes Marguerite Duras:"I cannot reconcile myself to being nothing." (Swimming in a Sea of Death, p. 167). 

The unbeliever is in a tough predicament.  He knows that he is not his own foundation, and that his ego must burst like an over-inflated balloon. And then nothing for all eternity.