Quotes by : Maurice Maeterlinck

For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’....

Wisdom is the lamp of love, and love is the oil of the lamp. Love, sinking deeper, grows wiser; and wisdom....

We can be born thus more than once and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set on....

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....

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....

The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.