Best Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
- And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become… Beautiful
- Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily. Athirst
- No great inner event befalls those who summon it not Befalls
- There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back. Centuries
- You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the… Better
- It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom. Breathe
- Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit… Autumn
- The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to… Definite
- The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase. Inspirational
- I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? Clearly
- Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long… Act
- It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death. Death
- Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention. Absorbs
- To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future? Change
- Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on… Flower
- Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea… Belief
- To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better. Become Better
- It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than… Accord
- Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne. Beauty
- Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. Absent
- We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great… All
- What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life. All
- I count only the hours that are serene. Count
- I am moved by the light. Inspirational
- The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world. Dials