The Life of the Bee Quotes

“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“Besides, I myself have now for a long time ceased to look for anything more beautiful in this world, or more interesting, than the truth; or at least than the effort one is able to make towards the truth.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“yet may it not be that these questions are idle, and we who are putting them to you mere childish dreamers, hedged round with error and doubt?”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“the more a hive inclines to its ruin, the more males it will produce”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“Son el alma del estío, el reloj de los minutos de abundancia, el ala diligente de los perfumes que vuelan, la inteligencia de los rayos de luz que se ciernen, el murmullo de las caridades que vibran, el canto de la atmósfera que descansa, y su vuelo es la señal visible, la nota convencida y musical de las pequeñas alegrías innumerables que nacen del calor y viven en la luz”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“...el menor secreto de un objeto, que vemos en la naturaleza que no es humana, toma quizás una parte más directa en el profundo enigma de nuestros fines y de nuestros orígenes que el secreto de nuestras pasiones más arrebatadoras y con sentido más complaciente estudiadas”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“Somos de tal naturaleza que nada nos lleva tan lejos y tan alto como los impulsos de nuestros errores”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“Human experience renders it daily more clear that the highest thought we can attain will long be inferior still to the mysterious truth we seek.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“the further we go and the more closely we study, the more plainly is it brought home to us that we merely are waifs shipwrecked on the ocean of nature; and ever and anon, from a sudden wave that shall be more transparent than others, there leaps forth a fact that in an instant confounds all that we imagine we knew”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee