154 Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

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

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.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

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

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

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.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.