Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Words)

"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Happiness)

"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Shadow)

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Death, Knowledge, Animals, Nothing)

"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Men, Future, Past, Tradition)

"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Happiness, Act, Goodness, Reward)

"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Truth, Value)

"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."
- Maurice Maeterlinck

"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Nothing, Will)

"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Love, Memory, Tears)

"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Happiness)

"To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Soul, Unhappiness)

"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Happiness, Peace, Life, Chance, Disaster)

"No great inner event befalls those who summon it not."
- Maurice Maeterlinck

"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Nature, May, Reason)

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Fashion, Silence)

"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Happiness, Duty, First)