Top 50 Sarah Kane Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “No one can hate me more than I hate myself.”

— Sarah Kane

2. “There’s not a drug on earth can make life meaningful.”

— Sarah Kane

3. “I am the beast at the end of the rope.”

— Sarah Kane

4. “No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won’t make you cry.”

— Sarah Kane

5. “I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.”

— Sarah Kane

6. “Death is my lover and he wants to move in.”

— Sarah Kane

7. “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

8. “What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.”

— Sarah Kane

9. “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

10. “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

11. “Embrace beautiful lies – the chronic insanity of the sane.”

— Sarah Kane

12. “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

13. “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

14. “Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.”

— Sarah Kane

15. “No one survives life.”

— Sarah Kane

16. “Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.”

— Sarah Kane

17. “It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind.”

— Sarah Kane

18. “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

19. “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

20. “You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.”

— Sarah Kane

21. “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

22. “I love you still, Against my will.”

— Sarah Kane

23. “I’m here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.”

— Sarah Kane

24. “Because love by its nature desires a future.”

— Sarah Kane

25. “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

26. “Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.”

— Sarah Kane

27. “If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.”

— Sarah Kane

28. “I don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.”

— Sarah Kane

29. “I feel your pain but I cannot hold your life in my hands.”

— Sarah Kane

30. “They will love me for that which destroys me.”

— Sarah Kane

31. “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

32. “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

33. “I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.”

— Sarah Kane

34. “There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.”

— Sarah Kane

35. “A room of expressionless faces staring blankly at my pain, so devoid of meaning there must be evil intent.”

— Sarah Kane

36. “But I am not here and never have been.”

— Sarah Kane

37. “Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It’s a hoot.”

— Sarah Kane

38. “Watching me, judging me, smelling the crippling failure oozing from my skin, my desperation clawing and all-consuming panic drenching me as I gape in horror at the world and wonder why everyone is smiling and looking at me with secret knowledge of my aching shame.”

— Sarah Kane

39. “And I go out at six in the morning and start my search for you. If I’ve dreamt a message of a street or a pub or a station I go there. And I wait for you.”

— Sarah Kane

40. “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

41. “I sing without hope on the boundary.”

— Sarah Kane

42. “I know. I’m angry because I understand, not because I don’t.”

— Sarah Kane

43. “I need to become who I already am.”

— Sarah Kane

44. “Your hair is an act of God.”

— Sarah Kane

45. “A horror so deep only ritual can contain it.”

— Sarah Kane

46. “It’s fear that keeps me away from the train tracks.”

— Sarah Kane

47. “You can only kill yourself if you’re not already dead.”

— Sarah Kane

48. “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

49. “PHAEDRE: You’re in pain. I adore you.”

— Sarah Kane

50. “Don’t even think about it. Who would have children. You have kids, they grow up, they hate you and you die.”

— Sarah Kane