Joel Kinnaman Quotes

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

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

At every point in 'Broadchurch' you're continually told and pulled back into the emotional cost.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

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

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Every loss of life is terrible.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

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.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.