Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

Maurice Maeterlinck Quote

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Words, Try, Soon

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Death, Knowledge, Nothing

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

Happiness, After, Sweet

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

Men, Future, Past

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Love, Enough, Lose

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Happy, Soul, Unrest

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

Happiness, Happy, Remember

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness, Understand, Able

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Truth, True, Value

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Nothing, Happen, Doors

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

Lives, Spend, Greater

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

Happiness, Presence, Rarely

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

Wisdom, Justice, Reason

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

Life, Peace, Happiness

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

Great, Inner, Event

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Nature, May, Reason

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Great, Silence, Fashion

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

Alone, Different, Dark

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Biography

Nationality: Belgian

Type: Dramatist

Born: August 29, 1862

Died: June 6, 1949

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