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

- Georges Rodenbach

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.

- Georges Rodenbach

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

- Georges Rodenbach

There are women whose love only ends with death.

- Georges Rodenbach

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

- Georges Rodenbach

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.

- Georges Rodenbach