Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck on Wise Famous Quotes.
There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.
To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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.
It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?
Bees will not work except in darkness;
Thought will not work except in Silence;
neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.
Thought will not work except in Silence;
neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
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.
It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more.