Sad Quotable: Archduke Karl Joseph of Austria

Karl Joseph

Karl Joseph was the short lived and favorite son of Maria Theresa of Austria and Francis I. He had many siblings including Marie Antoinette of Austria.

When he died just before his sixteenth birthday of smallpox, his mother cried at his bedside. He said this moving quote to her as she did:

"You should not weep for me, dear mother, for had I lived, I would have brought you many more tears[!]"