Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Guide
Guides
Goal
Death
Life
More quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
Maurice Maeterlinck
If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
Maurice Maeterlinck
We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
Maurice Maeterlinck
I count only the hours that are serene.
Maurice Maeterlinck
There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
Maurice Maeterlinck
To be good we must needs have suffered but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
Maurice Maeterlinck
It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
