Faces Quote by George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

— George Eliot

Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for…

— Albert Camus

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

— Stan Laurel

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

— Octave Mirbeau

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.

— Kolbein Falkeid

“Faces have a near-unwatchable intimacy, particularly in a world in which everything perishes in the end. It is difficult to look as we choose,…

— Kyo Maclear

“When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead" When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say…

— Charles Hamilton Sorley

“...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would…

— William Golding

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to…

— Meghan O'Rourke