# Quote — William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

> I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind — and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

- Author: [William Faulkner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner.md)
- Book: [As I Lay Dying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/i-can-remember

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> It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

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