Top 6 Quotes by Georges Rodenbach

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

Sorrow, Beauty Of Life, Superiors

Georges Rodenbach (2007). “The Bells of Bruges”, Dedalus Limited

There are women whose love only ends with death.

Ends

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

Dream, Art, Essence

Georges Rodenbach, Mike Mitchell (2011). “Bruges-La-Morte”, p.13, SCB Distributors

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

Mind, Body, Dissonance

Georges Rodenbach (1903). “Bruges-la-morte: A Romance”

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.

Art, Grace, Contentment

Georges Rodenbach (2007). “The Bells of Bruges”, Dedalus Limited

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.

Girl, Dying, Dresses

Georges Rodenbach (2007). “The Bells of Bruges”, Dedalus Limited

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