To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
Maurice Maeterlinck(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")
Maurice MaeterlinckMany a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Maurice MaeterlinckBrave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.
Maurice Maeterlinck