Vincent Van Gogh on Mental Health Quotes

"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."

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

"The only way to get through is to keep working."

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

"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, afterward."

"I am struggling with all my might to master my work, believing that if I master it, it will be the best lightning conductor for my illness."

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

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

"The sadness will last forever."

"I have a certain amount of fire in me and a certain amount of energy."

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

"I don't know if you will understand that one can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music."

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

"Suffering without complaining is the only lesson we have to learn in this life."

"The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

"One must work as long and as hard as one can."

"I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

"My own hope is that by moving among people I shall little by little find my own way."

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

"In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."

"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."

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."

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

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

"I have a need to continually educate myself, to study, just as I need to eat bread."

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

"I am at peace with myself now that I have decided to stay here."

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

"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."

"I believe that the more one loves, the more one suffers."

"To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life."

"I am such a coal from the fire."