The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life. Georges Rodenbach More Quotes by Georges Rodenbach More Quotes From Georges Rodenbach 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 essence dream art There are women whose love only ends with death. Georges Rodenbach ends 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 contentment grace art 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 girl dying dresses Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. Georges Rodenbach dissonance body mind