What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
