Sarah Kane Best Quotes & Sayings

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

Got your stuff?"

Nora's checks flushed. "Um, yeah, but..."

"What?"

"My hand hurts so much, and I need two hands to do my button. Could you...um..."

He furrowed his brow, unsure what she meant as she trailed off, blushing more now. Following her gaze, he glanced down at her pants. Sure enough, her jeans were on but unbuttoned, revealing a peek of the tiny green short-shorts from her uniform.

He chuckled and reached forward, buttoning her jeans for her. "I've never put pants on a woman before, but I'll make an exception this time."

"I appreciate your sacrifice," she said sarcastically, and Kane decided then and there that he wanted to see her smiling like that all the time. — Sarah Robinson

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

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

His hand found her chin, gently tipping her face up to look at him. "Kitty."

"What?" She finally looked at him, exposing a vulnerability in her eyes that made his heart pound behind his ribs.

"Dibs. — Sarah Robinson

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

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

Phaedra: I wanted to see your face when you came.
Hippolytus: Why?
Phaedra: I'd like to see you lose yourself.
Hippolytus: It's not a pleasant sight.
Phaedra: Why, what do you look like?
Hippolytus: Every other stupid fucker. — Sarah Kane

I dread the loss of her I've never touched
love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears
I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak
I miss a woman who was never born
I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet
Everything passes
Everything perishes
Everything palls
my thought walks away with a killing smile
leaving discordant anxiety
which roars in my soul
No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope — Sarah Kane

Hatch opens
Stark light
the rupture begins — Sarah Kane

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- I won't be able to think. I won't be able to work.
- Nothing will interfere with your work like suicide.
(Silence)
- I dreamt that I went to the doctor's and she gave me eight minutes to live. I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room for half an hour.
(A long silence)
- Okay, let's do it, let's do the drugs, let's do the chemical lobotomy, let's shut down the higher functions of my brain and perhaps I'll be a bit more fucking capable of living.
Let's do it. — Sarah Kane

I've never in my life had a problem giving another person what they
want. But no one's ever been able to do that for me. No one touches me,
no one gets near me. But now you've touched me somewhere so fucking
deep I can't believe and I can't be that for you. Because I can't find you. — Sarah Kane

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

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

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