Famous Maurice Maeterlinck Quotations

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"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."
by Maurice Maeterlinck
"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
by Maurice Maeterlinck
"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."
by Maurice Maeterlinck
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."
by Maurice Maeterlinck
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."
by Maurice Maeterlinck
"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
by Maurice Maeterlinck
"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."
by Maurice Maeterlinck
"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."
by Maurice Maeterlinck
"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
by Maurice Maeterlinck


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