Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

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

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

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

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

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

“For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep down in all things, the silent overpowering victory of that which you love.”

“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”