Maurice Maeterlinck

Quotes by 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

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

— 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

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

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

Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.

— 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

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

— Maurice Maeterlinck