"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.“


-Maurice Maeterlinck

posted in love


When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."

-Maurice Maeterlinck

wisdomView Quote
"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."

-Maurice Maeterlinck

peaceView Quote
"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."

-Maurice Maeterlinck

menView Quote
"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."

-Maurice Maeterlinck

knowledgeView Quote
"Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence."

-Maurice Maeterlinck

happinessView Quote
"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."

-Maurice Maeterlinck

happinessView Quote

More Quotes About love

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."

-Hans Urs von Balthasar

loveView Quote
"At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish."

-Hillary Clinton

loveView Quote
"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."

-Milan Kundera

loveView Quote
"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."

-Zora Neale Hurston

loveView Quote
"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."

-Abraham Joshua Heschel

loveView Quote
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."

-E. M. Forster

loveView Quote