Quotes by : Maurice Maeterlinck

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

What man is there that does not laboriously though all unconsciously himself fashion the sorrow that....

A thought that is almost beautiful – a thought that you speak not, but that you cherish within you....

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the shadow....

To learn to love, one must first learn to see.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not....

Death has come and atoned for all. I have no grievance against the soul of the man before me. Instinctively....

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never....

There needs but so little to encourage beauty in our soul; so little to awaken the slumbering angels;....