Introduction
My life has not been free of hardships, but 2013 brought up new depths of suffering, pain like I had never felt before and hope never to feel again. I wrote numerous blog posts during this time and frequently found myself looking for visual representations that communicated the angst that welled up inside me. I was surprised by how sparse these visuals were – at least ones that could be legally reproduced on a blog without first securing the author’s permission – so I have formed a collection of such legally reusable images here and hope they are useful to others as they have been to me.
If you stumble upon images which might fit into this collection, I’d gladly receive your recommendations.
The Scream (Edvard Munch)

Crossing the Styx (Gustave Dore)




Saturn Devouring His Son (Francisco Goya)




Old Man in Sorrow (Vincent Van Gogh)




Self-Portrait (Arnold Bocklin)




Man Fighting Death (AJ, OpenClipart)




Job (Leon Joseph Florentin Bounat)




Self-Portrait (Gustave Courbet)




Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Francisco Goya)




Still Life with a Skull (Philippe de Champaigne)




Dance of Death (Martin Wolgemut)




Self-Portrait (Erik Theodor Werenskiold)




Halleiner Kreuzigungsgruppe (Veit Stoss)




Images to be added:
- Der Arbeiter.
- Edvard Munch’s Melancholy.
- Melancholisches Mädchen.
- A Sculpture of Despair.
- Hyams Monument.
- Grave of János Elek and family at Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.
- Female Patient with Sleep Hysteria.
- I Can’t Think Straight.
- Fragile Emotion.
- Portrait of a Man.
- Sadness by Sasha Wolff.
- Pain without Tears. (trigger warning: infant death)
- A Woman Diagnosed as Suffering from Melancholia.
- Melancholy (Degas).