Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the shadow they throw as… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“As you climb up a mountain towards nightfall, the trees and the houses, the steeple, the fields and the orchards, the road,… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“He is wise who at last sees in suffering only the light that it sheds on his soul; and whose eyes never… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal. — 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
