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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(30 May 1877)
... faith one can go on for
a long time.
When I found myself in front of the corpse of Aerssen the
calmness and dignity and solemn silence of death contrasted
with us, who still live, to such an extent, that we all felt
the truth Of what his daughter said with... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(27 July 1877)
... parlour - he was such a pretty
little boy. The sorrow was great; he had been the light of the
house, as it were, and the light had now been extinguished.
Though rough people express their sorrow crudely and without
dignity, like this mother, one still feels deeply... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 March 1878)
... touches us more deeply than one realizes. It must be good to
die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and
to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at
least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.
A work that... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(15 November 1878)
... bleak day, gloomy and dark
weather.
It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike
everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day
through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la
fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 1 April 1885)
... the first days; it was the same with me.
Indeed, those were days we shall not easily forget. And yet
the total impression was not terrible, only solemn. Life is not
long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of
it.
Today I painted... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh
(c. 28 February 1888)
... considering them harmful insects.
But for parallel reasons I have little confidence in the
correctness of our human concepts of a future life. We are as
little able to judge of our own metamorphoses without bias and
prematureness as the white salad grubs... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 May 1888)
... a year. And that's no good to anyone.
My dear fellow, the Moslem idea that death comes only when
it must - but that is a question - for my part I think that we
have no proof of any direct management from above in this
matter. On the contrary, I think there... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 9 July 1888)
... not perhaps the hardest thing there is.
For my own part, I declare I know nothing whatever about it.
But to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I
dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and
villages. Why, I ask myself, should... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(31 July 1888)
... My dear Theo,
So at last our uncle's sufferings are over. I received the
news this morning from our sister. It appears that they were
more or less expecting you to be at the funeral, so perhaps you
will indeed be there.
How short life is and how like... |
