Death Quote by Vincent van Gogh — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“La tristesse durera toujours.”

“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.”

“My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.”

“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.”

“Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”

“(...) it was in this extreme poverty that I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I’ll recover from it, I’ll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I’ll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me, and now I’m on my way and my pencil has become somewhat obedient and seems to become more so day by day. It was poverty, too long and too severe, that had discouraged me to the point where I could no longer do anything.”

“How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us”

“Death is terrible for anyone. Young or old, good or evil, it’s all the same. Death is impartial. There is no especially terrible death. That’s why death is so fearsome. Your deeds, your age, your personality, your wealth, your beauty: they are all meaningless in the face of death.”

“The foolish rush to end their lives.”

“A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.”

“You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.”

“Living without protecting what needs to be protected is the same as death...”