--- title: "4 Bells Quotes By Georges Rodenbach" description: "4 Bells quotes by Georges Rodenbach. Plus more from Georges Rodenbach and more Bells sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53c/georges-rodenbach-9570_autumn_bruges-had-the-air-of-a-ghost-town-the-h_1273066.jpg" --- > [“Bruges had the air of a ghost town. The high towers, the trees along the canals withdrew, absorbed by the same muslin:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/bruges-had-the-air-of-a-ghost-town-the-high-towers-the-trees-along/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53c/georges-rodenbach-9570_autumn_bruges-had-the-air-of-a-ghost-town-the-h_1273066.jpg) > [“The carillon is, after all, the music of the people. Elsewhere, in the glittering capitals, public festivals are celebrated with fireworks, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/the-carillon-is-after-all-the-music-of-the-people-elsewhere-in-the/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e70/georges-rodenbach-9570_bells_the-carillon-is-after-all-the-music-of-t_1812834.jpg) > [“He was still climbing. Here and there doors opened revealing vast rooms, dormitories with heavy joists where bells were sleeping. A vague…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/he-was-still-climbing-here-and-there-doors-opened-revealing-vast/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b5/georges-rodenbach-9570_bells_he-was-still-climbing-here-and-there-doo_3107270.jpg) > [“Even during the nights, their nights punctuated by unending kisses, they were sometimes irritated by the carillon, which sounded every quarter of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/even-during-the-nights-their-nights-punctuated-by-unending-kisses/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c63/georges-rodenbach-9570_bells_even-during-the-nights-their-nights-punc_3144015.jpg) ## Other authors on Bells - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-sylvia-plath-88486.jpg) Sylvia Plath 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/sylvia-plath/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-herbert-37751.jpg) George Herbert 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/george-herbert/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-ward-beecher-41729.jpg) Henry Ward Beecher 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/henry-ward-beecher/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alfred-lord-tennyson-11317.jpg) Alfred Lord Tennyson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/alfred-lord-tennyson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pablo-neruda-73079.jpg) Pablo Neruda 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/pablo-neruda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-taylor-gatto-52360.jpg) John Taylor Gatto 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/john-taylor-gatto/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-donne-51262.jpg) John Donne 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/john-donne/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-41726.jpg) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edgar-allan-poe-31442.jpg) Edgar Allan Poe 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/edgar-allan-poe/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-antoine-de-saint-exup-ry-174.jpg) Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry/) ## More by Georges Rodenbach > [“Mevr. Cadzand feared for her son who, with his responsive nature, as sensitive as a hothouse plant, was more exposed. Fortunately religion is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/mevr-cadzand-feared-for-her-son-who-with-his-responsive-nature-as/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love one feels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/a-great-melancholy-was-hanging-in-the-air-giving-their-love-a-more/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“Oh, the sudden change of perspective brought about by travel and absence! How different everything was here: the people in the streets, the houses,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/oh-the-sudden-change-of-perspective-brought-about-by-travel-and/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“All lovers desire solitude in order to possess each other more completely. They create for each other a new universe inhabited by the two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/all-lovers-desire-solitude-in-order-to-possess-each-other-more/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“Now Borluut was seeing it from close to. And to its very end, it seemed, from the way the line of the horizon merged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/now-borluut-was-seeing-it-from-close-to-and-to-its-very-end-it-seemed/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“He felt alone, prey to the tedium, to the dreariness of time, especially at the approach of twilight which, during those late-autumn days, came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/he-felt-alone-prey-to-the-tedium-to-the-dreariness-of-time-especially/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/can-there-be-anything-more-sad-than-a-girl-dying-on-the-day-of-her/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“Dead towns are the Cathedrals of Silence. They, too, have their gargoyles, singular figures, exaggerated, dubious, set in high profile. They stand out from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/dead-towns-are-the-cathedrals-of-silence-they-too-have-their/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“Is it not strange how quickly one can become detached from everything? How empty life appears when one is close to death!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/is-it-not-strange-how-quickly-one-can-become-detached-from-everything/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“(We) fell out of love with life for having learnt too much of death. ("At School")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/we-fell-out-of-love-with-life-for-having-learnt-too-much-of-death-at/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“Does it not sometimes happen in life that our actions are solely for an enemy, so as to stand up to him, to confound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/does-it-not-sometimes-happen-in-life-that-our-actions-are-solely-for/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“That is the way it is, we always fall in love because of a detail, a nuance. It is a marker we set up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/that-is-the-way-it-is-we-always-fall-in-love-because-of-a-detail-a/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“In Bruges he had carried out a work which was anonymous and brought no glory, but was seen as admirable once it had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/in-bruges-he-had-carried-out-a-work-which-was-anonymous-and-brought/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/that-exquisite-sensual-pleasure-of-collectors-who-are-a-tactile/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) > [“The widower reviewed his past in a sunless light which was intensified by the greyness of the November twilight, whilst the bells subtly impregnated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/the-widower-reviewed-his-past-in-a-sunless-light-which-was/) [Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/georges-rodenbach/#itemlist", "name": "4 Bells Quotes By Georges Rodenbach", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Bruges had the air of a ghost town. 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