~ Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes ~

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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes


A francophone Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French.
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also called Comte (Count) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a francophone Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement.

Here are some famous quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

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There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

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Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

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The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.

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

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When we lose one we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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What man is there that does not laboriously though all unconsciously himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

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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.

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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.

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Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

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You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.