Elizabeth Kim Quotes

• Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Halloween, Dark, Moon

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• My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Dream, Heart, Dark

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• We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Struggle, Joy, Sorrow

  Elizabeth Kim (2000). “Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan”

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• My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Philosophy, Believe, Writing

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• We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Falling In Love, Tree, Ashes

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• I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself-in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Pain, Kindness, Reading

  Elizabeth Kim (2000). “Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan”

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• I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Walking Away, Heaven, Hell

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• It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Writing, Dark, Alive

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• Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Profound, May, Eternal

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• When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Writing, Heart, Effort

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• I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Feelings, Emotion, Fantasy

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• I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Careers, Appreciate, Loner

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• The fear and anxiety of baring my soul is transcended by the thrill and honor and wonderfulness of being able to touch and affect so many people... having people look into my mind, my imagination... into my heart and soul.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Heart, People, Imagination

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