Quote#Children
Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass…
Quote byEdmund Sears · 1810–1876
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 177..
English (original)
Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.
— Edmund Sears
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