Kim Young-ha Quotes

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.

Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.

Where did he go!” he bellowed, gloved hands clenching. “I had him in a snare that would take Alexander the Great a lifetime to untwist, and he did it in a week!” Al took a step, pinwheeling as his booted heel found an ice cube.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Things always seem to end before they start

I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!