George Eliot Quotes About Funeral

• Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Past, Cities

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.211, Booklassic

• Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

  George Eliot

  Death, Funeral, Looks

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.318

• Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

  George Eliot

  Night, Voice, Silence

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3820, Delphi Classics

• Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

  George Eliot

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4101, Delphi Classics

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