Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck



All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck



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 with it.

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



Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

Maurice Maeterlinck



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

Maurice Maeterlinck