Quotes By Maurice Maeterlinck
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
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
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Maurice Maeterlinck