Georges Rodenbach
The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.Collection: Sorrow
There are women whose love only ends with death.Collection: 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.Collection: Dream
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Girl