Sarah Kane Quotes

Built to be lonely
to love the absent.
Find me
Free me
from this
corrosive doubt
futile despair
horror in repose.
I can fill my space
fill my time
but nothing can fill this void in my heart. ~ Sarah Kane

No one survives life. ~ Sarah Kane

HIPPOLYTUS: I can't sin against a God I don't believe in. ~ 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

I believe in anniversaries, that a mood can be repeated even if the event that caused it is trivial or forgotten. In this case, it's neither. ~ Sarah Kane

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

I love you now.
I'm with you now.
I'll do my best, moment to moment, not to betray you. Now.
That's it. No more. Don't make me lie to you. ~ Sarah Kane

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

A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows.
Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply
because that was where she happened to be when the fight began.
Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or
doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her
parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every
room in the house. ~ Sarah Kane

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

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

He's following me... He needs to have a secret but he can´t help telling the heat is going out of me. The heart is going out of me, and though she cannot remember she cannot forget. Clutching a fistful of sand. What ties me to you is guilt. I crossed two rivers and wept by one I am the beast at the end of the rope Happy and free. ~ Sarah Kane

And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck and kiss your feet and hold your hand and go for a meal and not mind when you eat my food and meet you at Rudy's and talk about the day and type up your letters and carry your boxes and laugh at your paranoia and give you tapes you don't listen to and watch great films and watch terrible films and complain about the radio and take pictures of you when you're sleeping and get up to fetch you coffee and bagels and Danish and go to Florent and drink coffee at midnight and have you steal my cigarettes and never be able to find a match and tell you about the tv programme I saw the night before and take you to the eye hospital and not laugh at your jokes and want you in the morning but let you sleep for a while and kiss your back and stroke your skin and tell you how much I love your hair your eyes your lips your neck your breasts your arse your

and sit on the steps smoking till your neighbour comes home and sit on the steps smoking till you come home and worry when you're late and be amazed when you're early and give you sunflowers and go to your party and dance till I'm black and be sorry when I'm wrong and happy when you forgive me and look at your photos and wish I'd known you forever and hear your voice in my ear and feel your skin on my skin and get scared when you're angry and your eye has gone red and the other e ~ Sarah Kane

I sing without hope on the boundary ~ 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

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

Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me. ~ Sarah Kane

A horror so deep only ritual can contain it. ~ Sarah Kane

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

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

Hippolytus: Do you believe in God?
Priest: (Looks at him.)
Hippolytus: I know what I am. And always will be. But you. You sin knowing you'll confess. Then you're forgiven. And then you start all over again.
How do you dare mock a God so powerful? Unless you don't really believe.
Priest: This is your confession, not mine.
Hippolytus: Then why are you on your knees? God certainly is merciful. If I were him I'd despise you. I'd wipe you off the face of the earth for your dishonesty.
Priest: You're not God.
Hippolytus: No. A prince. God on earth. But not God. Fortunate for all concerned. I'd not allow you to sin knowing you'd confess and get away with it.
Priest: Heaven would be empty.
Hippolytus: A kingdom of honest men, honestly sinning. And death for those who try to cover their arse. ~ Sarah Kane

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

It's fear that keeps me away from the train tracks. ~ Sarah Kane

Burning in a hot tunnel of dismay, my humiliation complete as I shake without reason and stumble over words and have nothing to say about my 'illness' which anyway amounts only to knowing that there's no point in anything because I'm going to die. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

A circle is the only geometric shape defined by its centre. No chicken and egg about it, the centre came first, the circumference follows. The earth, by definition, has a centre. And only the fool that knows it can go wherever he pleases, knowing the centre will hold him down, stop him flying out of orbit. But when your sense of centre shifts, comes whizzing to the surface, the balance has gone. The balance has gone. The balance my baby has gone. ~ Sarah Kane

Your hair is an act of God. ~ Sarah Kane

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

I cannot touch my essential self. ~ Sarah Kane

But you have friends.
You have a lot of friends.
What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave.
What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave
what do you offer.
... if I could remember any more of my lines I'd add them
so basically this is a preface to the whole play. I would like to quote the whole play. Currently my mind is afraid to remember the play. ~ Sarah Kane

(A very long silence.)
- But you have friends.
(A long silence.)
You have a lot of friends.
What do you offer your friends to make them so supportive?
(A long silence.)
What do you offer your friends to make them so supportive?
(A long silence.)
What do you offer?
(Silence.)
~ Sarah Kane

I need to become who I already am ~ Sarah Kane

Don't say no to me you can't say no to me because it's such a relief to have love again and to lie in bed and be held and touched and kissed and adored and your heart will leap when you hear my voice and see my smile and feel my breath on your neck and your heart will race when I want to see you and I will lie to you from day one and use you and screw you and break your heart because you broke mine first and you will love me more each day until the weight is unbearable and your life is mine and you'll die alone because I will take what I want then walk away and owe you nothing it's always there it's always been there and you cannot deny the life you feel fuck that life fuck that life fuck that life I have lost you now. ~ Sarah Kane

Some will call this self-indulgence
(They are lucky not to know its truth)
Some will know the simple fact of pain
This is becoming my normality ~ Sarah Kane

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take. ~ Sarah Kane

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

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

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

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

You'll be all right. You're strong. I know you'll be okay because I like you and you can't like someone who doesn't like themself. The people I fear for are the ones who I don't like because they hate themselves so much they won't let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. I'll miss you. And I know you'll be okay. ~ 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

What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? ~ Sarah Kane

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

Theatre has no memory, which makes it the most existential of the arts... I keep coming back in the hope that someone in a darkened room somewhere will show me an image that burns itself into my mind ~ Sarah Kane

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this. ~ Sarah Kane

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

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

Have you made any plans?
Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself.
All those things together?
It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help. ~ Sarah Kane

Hatch opens
Stark light
the rupture begins ~ Sarah Kane

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

please open the curtains ~ Sarah Kane

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person. ~ 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

He's my family," she said finally. Quietly. "He's everything. ~ Stacia Kane

You can't be together, which is exactly why you want to be. ~ Sarah Dessen

Forgive me for being the stupidest man on the planet?"
"Careful. You're talking about the man I love. ~ Sarah Mayberry

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell. ~ Carol Kane

Stop it, she told herself.
There was only so much she could control.
But that was just it. She was trying so hard because she felt so out of control. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps? ~ Edge

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you. ~ Sarah Dessen

I did not matter what distant iron city had raised him. He had been made by Sorry-in-the-Vale, his bones as much a part of it as the valley and the woods. It was as if she had the whole town spread underneath her. Or the whole world, since right then he was the only part of it that mattered. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top. ~ Sarah Vowell

Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of two faces, but we were so powerful we threatened to topple the Gods. So they split us from our sole mates down the middle, and doomed us to live forever without our counterparts ~ Sarah Crossan

When you're gone and people remember you, what will they say about you? That you were happy, generous and kind? That you loved big? Or that you were the drunken singer in a rock band? ~ Sarah Grimm

It takes forty muscles to frown, and only twelve to jam a cupcake in your mouth and get over it. ~ Sarah Ockler

I am all for contraception. And I am all for preventative measures that are legal and safe, and should be taken. ~ Sarah Palin

..And now look. Life changes in ways we can never imagine. Walls come down and people are free. You wait, she says. ~ Sarah Winman

I don't force myself to exercise; I find going to gyms really boring. I find it easier to go for a fast walk or a jog in Central Park. I wear sensible shoes because my ballet dancing left me with a bunion on one foot after all the pointe exercises. ~ Sarah Brightman

Feminism gained popularity as a result of 'secular' work and scholarship, but the line between sacred and secular is man-made. Because God is the source of truth, Christians can still give thanks to God for the good works associated with feminism, such as the gaining of status for women as 'persons' under the law, voting, owning property, and defending themselves in a court of law against domestic violence and rape. ~ Sarah Bessey

Just going to Bangladesh was an experience ... if you go into small villages in the U.K., they're backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts. ~ Sarah Gavron

Now she had no choice about what she had to do. What she would do to protect Dorian. It was what she'd realized last night: she did have someone left - one friend. And there was nothing she wouldn't do to keep him safe. ~ Sarah J. Maas

If she had learned one thing from Rebecca it was that demonstrations of affection or even emotion were few and far between when it came to the Amish way of life. ~ Sarah Price

Think about what would happen if Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child. I use high-resolution and NASA satellites and look for subtle differences on the surface of the earth that locate buried ancient pyramids and towns and ancient tombs, which we then go and excavate. ~ Sarah Parcak

We each make our own decisions and we stand or fall by the truth of them. ~ Sarah K.L. Wilson

What had once been grand houses were divided meanly into many small apartments, let at prices out of all proportion to what wages it was possible to earn. Rooms were sub-let, and sub-let again, so that what constituted a family had long been forgotten. ~ Sarah Perry

If we're equals, then I don't understand why you're still half clothed. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Sometimes the best thing about us isn't what we're gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing. ~ Sarah Noffke

His pictures of this region summarize the soulful emptiness of a country where, as Gertrude Stein observed, 'there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. ~ Sarah Vowell

What would our enemies say if they knew we'd all been petrified of a girl? ~ Sarah J. Maas

Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death. ~ Big Daddy Kane

Sometimes there isn't a good guy or a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars. ~ Sarah Dessen

But I knew he wouldn't kiss me. Not tonight. Not like this. There was too much between us now, all the words and near misses. All the potential, the alternate futures that would stretch out before us in an unending spiral, all built on what happened in this moment. I held his fiery gaze and remembered the five-oh, the half-and-half, the promises I'd whispered to myself in the dawn light.
I might lose all my memories one day, but that wouldn't keep me from making them. ~ Sarah Ockler

Here we are. And we are living. Isn't it amazing? How we manage to be at all. ~ Sarah Crossan

You should make your choices as though you were choosing on behalf of the whole of humanity, ~ Sarah Bakewell

I told myself that the last thing I needed was something else to love- something else to lose. ~ Ellery A. Kane

I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool. ~ Patrick Kane

Callie was ruing the moment that afternoon when she had suggested a small, intimate dinner. Tonight, even the ancestors watching from the portraits lining the sitting-room walls seemed to be mocking her. ~ Sarah MacLean

Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss ... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word. ~ Sarah Fielding

I got so much out of 'The To-Do List.' This is a joke that I say about myself sometimes, in terms of my film career: I feel like I'm always playing the kid in serious adult movies. So, for me, it was so wonderful to suddenly be working with other people my age who were doing this on film. ~ Sarah Steele

Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend. ~ Sarah Palin