死
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
Le Bonheur! Sa dent, douce à la mort, m'avertissait au chant du coq, — ad matutinum, au Christus venit, — dans les plus sombres villes.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.
The past is never dead; it is not even past.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
"The fundamental fact about all of us is that we're alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain."
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
Literature is the conversation between the living and the dead.
You build your life around the fact that you are going to die, and then you don’t die.