“Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had …”

“Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Verification

Attributed

Recorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.

Imported from Wikiquote; not yet checked by QuoteQuest against the original source.

Source

Title: Wikiquote: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Type: reference · Secondary source
Held by: Wikiquote

View source at Wikiquote

Context

Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber (5 December 1791), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)

Cite this source

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart

Check citations against your institution's style guide; some details may be missing.

Provenance: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA)