Belgian Author Quotes

Georges Simenon

Maurice Maeterlinck

Hugo Claus

Georges Rodenbach

Stijn Streuvels

Hadewijch

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown. Victory is assured to the combatant who is both physically and mentally nonresistant.

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

Stijn Streuvels

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

Georges Rodenbach

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

Georges Simenon

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The duty of a scientist is not to distort the manifestations of natural phenomena in the light of some more or less popular idea. His duty is to explain facts.

Émile Cammaerts

Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.