Maurice Maeterlinck quotes

" When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. " # Wisdom # Love # Memory

" 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. " # Happiness # Freedom # Power

" We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. " # Loneliness

" Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. " # Reason # Nature # Government

" 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. " # Chance # Peace # Happiness

" It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. " # Wisdom # Justice # Reason

" They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. " # Complacency # Opportunity # Belief

" 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. " # Alliances # Marriage # Life and Living

" 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. " # Alliances