Maurice Maeterlinck Quote

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.


Joyzelle, Act i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the...

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the...

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the...

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the...