677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

La tristesse durera toujours.[The sadness will last forever.]

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, utterly helpless.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

What I am 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; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

There is safety in the very heart of danger.

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

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.