Kristine Opolais Quotes

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.