Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

Maurice Maeterlinck — Belgian Dramatist born on August 29, 1862, died on June 06, 1949

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was a Fleming, but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement... (wikipedia)

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

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

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

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.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.