If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor. — Maurice Maeterlinck
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. — 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
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. — Maurice Maeterlinck
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. — Maurice Maeterlinck
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from nature. — 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