Georges Rodenbach Quotes

Belgium, Poet
July 16, 1855 – December, 25, 1898.

Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist. Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland. He was related to the famous German poet Christoph Martin Wieland.

That is the way it is, we always fall in love because of a detail, a nuance. It is a marker we set up for ourselves in the midst of the confusion, in the infinite space of love. The greatest passions come from such little causes.

Georges Rodenbach
- Causes
- Passions
- Detail
Woman is the window through which we see the world.

Georges Rodenbach
- Woman
- See
- Window

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
- Art
- Dream
- Unattainable
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
- Death
- Girl
- Communion
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

Georges Rodenbach
- Mind
- Body
- DIssonance
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
- Art
- Religion
- Grace
The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

Georges Rodenbach
- Life
- Beauty
- Sorrow
There are women whose love only ends with death.

Georges Rodenbach
- Women
- Love
- Death

It is distance that creates nostalgia.

Georges Rodenbach