Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
A francophone Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911.
(1872 - 1949)
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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
[Truth]
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
[Death]
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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.
[Happiness]
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
[Worry]
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Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
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Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
[Happiness]
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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
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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.
[Self Acceptance]
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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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.
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No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
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Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
[Positive]
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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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.
[Lighten Up]
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
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The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.
[The Future]
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
[Positive]
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There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
[Courage]
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They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
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