Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#ab3ebbfe

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#93dcebf1

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#93df45c8

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#0747309b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#53efa066

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#4fb94fb7

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#040bfddc

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#b97f0dab

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#d87e8f47

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#ec45e7e7

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#80a10734

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#415b08c0

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#81517fd0

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#916b916b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#6f172907

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#96ec68ea

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maurice-maeterlinck-quotes/#9c201954

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