Quote

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

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
Values
Disquiet
Melancholy
Sadness
Misery
Value

More quotes by 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
There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
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
No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
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 tried to step beyond what bound me.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.
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
I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, 'Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde,' which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Image
In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck