Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

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

- 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

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

- Maurice Maeterlinck

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

- Maurice Maeterlinck

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

- 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

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

- Maurice Maeterlinck

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

- Maurice Maeterlinck

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

- 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

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

- 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

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

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

- Maurice Maeterlinck

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

- 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