The living are just the dead on holiday

- Maurice Maeterlinck

They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and …

- Maurice Maeterlinck

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of …

- Maurice Maeterlinck

As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to …

- Maurice Maeterlinck

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

- Maurice Maeterlinck

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

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

- Maurice Maeterlinck