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Quotes About Cathedrals

Religion did not arise out of the need to assure social solidarity, nor were cathedrals built to encourage tourism.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business is to be fallen for" by more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.
~ Osamu Dazai
It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.
~ Osamu Dazai