Sarah Kane Quotes

I am the beast at the end of the rope. — Sarah Kane

You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings. — Sarah Kane

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after — Sarah Kane

Body and soul can never be married
I need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell — Sarah Kane

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me. — Sarah Kane

We made love, and then she threw up. — Sarah Kane

And the rats eat my face. So what. — Sarah Kane

I am much fucking angrier than you think. — Sarah Kane

I've faked orgasms before, but this is the first time I've faked not having an orgasm. — Sarah Kane

I sing without hope on the boundary — Sarah Kane

M The heat is going out of me.
C The heart is going out of me.
B I feel nothing, nothing.
I feel nothing. — Sarah Kane

Drowning in a sea of logic
this monstrous state of palsy — Sarah Kane

Hatch opens
Stark light
the rupture begins — Sarah Kane

If there is a God, I'd like to look him in the face knowing I'd died as I lived. In conscious sin. — Sarah Kane

And there it was, so fleeting I almost missed it.

Christian Kane's real, unguarded smile. — Sarah Ockler

Your hair is an act of God. — Sarah Kane

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful — Sarah Kane

I dreamt I went to the doctor's and she gave me eight minutes to live-I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room half an hour. — Sarah Kane

Long before I had the chance to adore all of you, I adored the bits of you I could see. — Sarah Kane

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions. — Sarah Kane

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry. — Sarah Kane

A fourteen year old to steal my virginity on the moor and rape me till I come. — Sarah Kane

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do — Sarah Kane

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it. — Sarah Kane

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more. — Sarah Kane

The only thing that's permanent is destruction
we're all going to disappear
trying to leave a mark more permanent that myself. — Sarah Kane

A room of expressionless faces staring blankly at my pain, so devoid of meaning there must be evil intent. — Sarah Kane

I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die. — Sarah Kane

They will love me for that which destroys me. — Sarah Kane

PHAEDRE: You're in pain. I adore you. — Sarah Kane

I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people. — Sarah Kane

I know. I'm angry because I understand, not because I don't. — Sarah Kane

No one can hate me more than I hate myself. — Sarah Kane

If I could be free of you without having to lose you. — Sarah Kane

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person. — Sarah Kane

I don't have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words. — Sarah Kane

Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot. — Sarah Kane

Sanity is found at the centre of convulsion, where madness is scorched
from the bisected soul. — Sarah Kane

At home I'm clean. Like it never happened. Tell them you saw me. Tell them ... you saw me. — Sarah Kane

I feel your pain but I cannot hold your life in my hands. — Sarah Kane

You can only kill yourself if you're not already dead. — Sarah Kane

I hope you never understand, because I like you. I like you, I like you. — Sarah Kane

But I am not here and never have been. — Sarah Kane

And tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me ... — Sarah Kane

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can. — Sarah Kane

Your disbelief cures nothing. — Sarah Kane

Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn't I wish you hadn't I wish you'd left me alone. — Sarah Kane

I am jealous of my sleeping lover and cover his induced
unconsciousness. — Sarah Kane

Death is my lover and he wants to move in. — Sarah Kane

I love you still,
Against my will. — Sarah Kane

When depression visits
I shall hang myself
to the sound of my lover's breathing — Sarah Kane

Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas. — Sarah Kane

The chicken's still dancing
the chicken won't stop — Sarah Kane

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief. — Sarah Kane

I cannot touch my essential self. — Sarah Kane

As a child I liked to piss on the carpet.
The carpet rotted and I blamed it on the dog. — Sarah Kane

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane — Sarah Kane

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap. — Sarah Kane

No one survives life. — Sarah Kane

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse. — Sarah Kane

- I used to love you.
- What's changed?
- You.
- No. Now you see me. That's all. — Sarah Kane

It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind — Sarah Kane

I'm tired of my life and my mind wants to die. — Sarah Kane

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been. — Sarah Kane