Austere Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Georges Rodenbach

“Is it not strange how quickly one can become detached from everything? How empty life appears when one is close to death!”

— Georges Rodenbach

“(We) fell out of love with life for having learnt too much of death. ("At School")”

— 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…

— 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…

— Georges Rodenbach