“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Source: Emma
“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.”
Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
H. D. Deve Gowda (1933) Indian politician
Source: Girja Kumar The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n-KUICFfA00C&pg=PA460&dq=Devegowda&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bJe6U8othJWTBe2mgLAD&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Devegowda&f=false, Har-Anand Publications, 01-Jan-1997
“I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.”
F. S. Flint (1885–1960) English Imagist poet
Preface, In the Net of Stars, 1909
Other Quotes
Rosie Malek-Yonan (1965) Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist
As quoted in The Crimson Field.
The Crimson Field (2005)
“You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.”
David Klass book You Don't Know Me
Variant: The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all.
Source: You Don't Know Me
Bernice King (1963) American minister, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A Call for Prayer – and Action -- Against Violence in America" (2012)
Context: The mind and heart reel at the thought of the sheer evil and brutality that makes such horrific tragedies possible as the killings in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Having lost a father and grandmother to gun violence, it is a familiar feeling to me, and I embrace the families of the victims in my heart and prayers. It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence. But to lose a beloved child and the adults who were dedicated to educating the children to sudden, senseless violence in the midst of the holiday season must be a feeling that is beyond comprehension.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant translation: I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude...
1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)