Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

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

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Topics in Inspirational, Love, Memory

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

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Topics in Nature

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

  Maurice Maeterlinck

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

  Maurice Maeterlinck

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  Tags in Happen

• No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

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  Tags in Great

• 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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  Tags in Worry

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

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Topics in Death, Knowledge

• We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

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

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• 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.

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• 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

  Topics in Life

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

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Topics in Wisdom

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

  Maurice Maeterlinck

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

  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

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• 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

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

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Topics in Truth

Maurice Maeterlinck (18)

Birth:	29th August, 1862
Death:	6th May, 1949
Nationality:	Belgian, French
Profession:	Essayist, Playwriter, Poet

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