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May Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- I am always doing what I can't do so I may learn how to do it.
- But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to…
- I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is…
- It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live,…
- I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even…
- It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the…
- There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe…
- It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels…
- The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one…
- To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be…
- When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in…
- My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like…
- There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a…
- One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of…
- Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is…
- There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the…
- Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a…
- I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is…
- One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
- Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
- But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong