Knowledge Merely Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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

The living are just the dead on holiday

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

— Maurice Maeterlinck

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Niemand is waarlijk mijn vriend, voordat we geleerd hebben in elkanders tegenwoordigheid te zwijgen.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck