Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

"If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live."
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
"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing."
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in Fre...