Georges Rodenbach Quotes

#1. I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

Rand Paul

#2. 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.

Georges Rodenbach

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

Georges Rodenbach

#4. 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

#5. The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#6. 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

#7. Look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they really are.

Suzanne Collins

#8. The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.

Georges Rodenbach

#9. As he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn and evening, a craving for the quietude of the grave ... overtook him with unwanted intensity.

Georges Rodenbach

#10. Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

James D. Watson

#11. 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

#12. Without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament ... Eucharist of love with a red host!

Georges Rodenbach

#13. If you're willing to do the work, you can have anything.

Daniel Lugo

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

Georges Rodenbach

#15. I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

V.S. Pritchett

#16. Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians ... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

Chuck Close

#17. I didn't like it when other people criticized Laura - her vagueness, her simplicity, her feckleness. Criticism of Laura was reserved for me.

Margaret Atwood

#18. Bruges was his dead wife. And his dead wife was Bruges. The two were untied in a like destiny. It was Bruges-la-Morte, the dead town entombed in its stone quais, with the arteries of its canals cold once the great pulse of the sea had ceased beating in them.

Georges Rodenbach

#19. There are women whose love only ends with death.

Georges Rodenbach