„Ill as well, and I have not been brave. Then face to face with the suffering of these attacks I feel very frightened too…. All the same I know well that healing comes – if one is brave – from within through profound resignation to suffering and death, through the surrender of your own will and of your self-love. But that is no use to me, I love to paint, to see people and things and everything that makes our life – artificial – if you like.“

— Vincent Van Gogh

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„I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.“
— Paulo Coelho
„I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?“
— Erich Maria Remarque
„All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.“
— Johnny Cash
„In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.“
— Paulo Coelho
„You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Through me course wide rivers and in me rise tall mountains. And beyond the thickets of my agitation and confusion there stretch the wide plains of my peace and surrender. All landscapes are within me. And there is room for everything. The earth is in me, and the sky. And I well know that something like hell can also be in one, though I no longer experience it in myself, but I can still feel it in others with great intensity. And that is as it should be, or else I might grow too complacent.“
— Etty Hillesum