Top 17 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

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

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

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

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

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