Quote

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Maurice Maeterlinck
Age: 86 †
Born: 1862
Born: August 29
Died: 1949
Died: May 5
Author
Essayist
Librettist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Gent
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck
Happy
Soul
Unrest
Freed
Unhappiness

More quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

Image
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
To be good we must needs have suffered but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
I count only the hours that are serene.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
Maurice Maeterlinck