Kim Jee-woon Quotes

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

What I want back is what I was.

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

I can imagine they're asking for someone, and someone is asking for me. Everyone knows I keep asking for Wonderboy, and I will - I'll keep knocking on the door.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom on those who are not free.

Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.

Still desiring, we live without hope.

Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Whatever I want,' he says. 'Yes.' 'I'm afraid you haven't been privy to that dream yet.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.