Maurice Maeterlinck Quotations

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.

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.

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.

I am moved by the light.

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not

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.

Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.