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
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. – Maurice Maeterlinck
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. – Maurice Maeterlinck
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. – Maurice Maeterlinck
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. – Maurice Maeterlinck
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. – 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
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
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. – 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
