Kim Young-ha Quotes

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Bjork, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul there.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.