Sarah Kane quotes

Sarah Kane was an influential English playwright known for her powerful and provocative works in contemporary theatre. Her plays explored intense themes such as love, pain, and mental health, often challenging audiences with their raw emotion. She remains a significant figure in modern drama, greatly impacting theatre with her distinctive voice. Here are 27 of her quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.

Sarah Kane

They will love me for that which destroys me.

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

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

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

Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

Sarah Kane

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane.

Sarah Kane

I am the beast at the end of the rope.

Sarah Kane

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful.

Sarah Kane

I love you still, Against my will.

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

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

Sarah Kane

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

Sarah Kane

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

Sarah Kane

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

Sarah Kane

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

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

Sarah Kane