Georges Rodenbach Quotes

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

There are women whose love only ends with death.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.

...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband and wife, who love each other, can see each other in one single face.