Quotes About Hope

Atualmente estou descontente comigo e descontente com o que faço, mas entrevejo a possibilidade de fazer melhor na sequência.

Contudo já seria consolador se soubéssemos que virá uma geração de artistas mais felizes

O que eu quero dizer e o que eu aspiro é tremendamente difícil, e no entanto não acredito estar aspirando alto demais.

Aqui, exceto a liberdade, exceto muitas outras coisas que eu gostaria que fossem diferentes, não estou muito mal.

Acabo de ler O ano terrível de Victor Hugo. Nele há esperança, mas... esta esperança está nas estrelas. Acho isto verdadeiro e bem dito e belo, aliás acredito nisto de bom grado.

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

Everything on earth changes - we have no abiding city here - it is the experience of everybody. That it is God's will that we should part with what is dearest on earth - we ourselves change in many respects, we are not what we once were, we shall not remain what we are now.

In the midst of life we are near death, that is a phrase which touches each one of us personally, it is a truth we see again confirmed in what you tell me about Carolien van Stockum, and formerly we saw it in another member of the same family. It has touched me, and with all my heart I hope she may recover. Oh! what sorrow, what sadness and suffering there is in the world, in public as well as in private life.

According to Theo, he is definitely making a name for himself. But we are under no illusions, and are only too grateful that he is having some slight success. You don't know what a hard life he has had, and who can say what is still in store for him. His disappointments have often made him fell bitter and have turned him into an unusual person.

I know there are persons who think I ought to resign myself, and that it is against the rules not to consider myself beaten; but if they say of my proposal this summer, "If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before night," then you know the verse, He lost his feather in a fight But knew they'd grow again all right, Far finer than before

Victor Hugo says God is an eclipsing lighthouse, and certainly now we are passing through that eclipse. I only wish that someone could prove to us something calming which comforted us, so that we stopped feeling guilty or unhappy and that we could go forward without losing ourselves in the solitude or nothingness, and without having to fear every step, or to nervously calculate the harm we may unintentionally be doing to others.

Is the Bible enough for us? These days I think Jesus himself would say again to those who sit down in melancholy, "It is not here, it is risen. Why seek ye the living among the dead?

Não te oculto que teria preferido morrer a causar e a sofrer tantos dissabores. Mas que queres? Sofrer sem se queixar é a única lição que tratamos de aprender na vida.

But since then I've had no chance of getting models, though on the other hand I did have the chance to study the colour question. And if I should find models again for my figures later, then I would hope to be able to show that I am after something other than little green landscapes or flowers.

My dear sister, it is my belief that it is actually one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love. The more ugly, old, mean, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent.

How much sadness there is in life. Still, it won't do to become depressed, one should turn to other things, and the right thing is work, but there are times when one can only find peace of mind in the realization: I, too, shall not be spared by unhappiness"_Page.241

Wat is het moeilijk om het gewone leven weer op te pakken en niet totaal ontmoedigd te raken door de onafwendbaarheid van de ellende

one must never let the fire in one's soul die, for the time will inevitably come when it will be needed.

And the pilgrim goes on sorrowful yet always rejoicing - sorrowful because it is so far off and the road so long. Hopeful as he looks up to the eternal city far away, resplendent in the evening glow and he thinks of two old sayings that he heard long ago - the one is: "Much strife must be striven Much suffering must be suffered Much prayer must be prayed And then the end will be peace.

But don't worry too much about it, we shall not fail, but what I tell you is true - from the moment that I send this letter off till I get your answer, which I hope, however, will cross mine, I shall be without a cent, and it will mean fasting again. Well, let's hope we shall be together soon, and that the worst will be over.

Personally I believe that the adversities one meets with in the ordinary course of life do us as much good as harm. The very complaint that makes one ill today, overwhelming one with discouragement, that same thing - once the disease has passed off - gives us the energy to get up and to want to be completely recovered tomorrow.

How much sadness there is in life! Nevertheless one must not become melancholy. One must seek distraction in other things, and the right thing is to work.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.