Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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