Best Maurice Maeterlinck Sayings
- Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying… Deplore
- How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. Diminish
- When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. Bitterest
- All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. All
- At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. Crossroads
- 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… Act
- They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. Belief
- To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. Freed
- A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. Disheartens
- If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. Bee
- Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?. All
- It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others. Dwells
- I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have… Acceptance
- Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. Feeble
- We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. Able
- All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing All