Top 17 Quotes 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.

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

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.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know 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.

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.

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

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

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

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.