他想到了许多人对生活的感觉。生活是一个遗憾的问题 - 还有什么可以吗？我们知道我们会失去所爱的东西。我们知道，迟早会失去一切，除此之外，我们发现很难想象的不存在的状态，更不用说接受了。
(He thought of all the ways that so many people felt about life. Life was a matter of regret--how could it be anything else? We knew that we would lose the things we loved; we knew that sooner or later we would lose everything, and beyond that was a darkness, a state of non-being that we found hard to imagine, let alone accept.)