Vincent Van Gogh on Depression Quotes

"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."

"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."

"My only anxiety is, how can I be of use in the world? Cannot I serve some purpose and be of any good?"

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

"I feel a certain melancholy, a certain regret that I am not more of a man of the world."

"What is done in love is done well."

"There is a barrier, a wall, between me and the others; it is a wall of melancholy."

"There is no blue without yellow and without orange."

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."

"Close your eyes and look at the inner world."

"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too."

"I have a more or less irresistible passion for books, and I have a need to continually educate myself, to study, if you like, just as I have a need to eat bread."

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."

"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke."

"I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well."

"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."

"I feel such a creative power in me that I am sure the time will come when, so to speak, I shall produce something good every day."

"The sadness will last forever."

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it."

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

"I am a prisoner of my own thoughts; I cannot escape the cage of my mind."

"One must not let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning."

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."

"I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things, which I happen to repent, more or less, afterwards."

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."

"What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have."

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."