Georges Rodenbach quotes:

The widower reviewed his past in a sunless light which was intensified by the greyness of the November twilight, whilst the bells subtly impregnated the surrounding atmosphere with the melody of sounds that faded like the ashes of dead years.

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

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...

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

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

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.

There are women whose love only ends with death.