George Eliot Quotes about Death

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot

Death, Dying, Literature

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

Life, Death, Kings

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.401

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

George Eliot

Death, Years, Shadow

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6956, Delphi Classics

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

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.

George Eliot

Death, Brother, Journey

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

George Eliot

Death, Heart, Waiting

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2743, ShandonPress