Top 75 Sarah Kane Quotes
#1. - I used to love you.
- What's changed?
- You.
- No. Now you see me. That's all.
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#2. 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.
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#3. Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.
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#4. Sanity is found at the centre of convulsion, where madness is scorched
from the bisected soul.
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#5. You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.
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#7. But I am not here and never have been.
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#8. The chicken's still dancing
the chicken won't stop
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#9. I know. I'm angry because I understand, not because I don't.
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#10. I don't have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.
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#11. I hope you never understand, because I like you. I like you, I like you.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. We made love, and then she threw up.
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#15. I've faked orgasms before, but this is the first time I've faked not having an orgasm.
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#16. And tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me ...
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#17. PHAEDRE: You're in pain. I adore you.
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#18. And the rats eat my face. So what.
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#19. I am much fucking angrier than you think.
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#20. 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.
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#21. I am the beast at the end of the rope.
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#22. When depression visits
I shall hang myself
to the sound of my lover's breathing
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#23. I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.
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#24. The only thing that's permanent is destruction
we're all going to disappear
trying to leave a mark more permanent that myself.
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#25. 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.
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#26. Sometimes I turn around and catch the smell of you and I cannot go on I cannot fucking go on without expressing this terrible so fucking awful physical aching fucking longing I have for you. And I cannot believe that I can feel this for you and you feel nothing. Do you feel nothing?
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#28. No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.
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#29. I am jealous of my sleeping lover and cover his induced
unconsciousness.
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#30. If I could be free of you without having to lose you.
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#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
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#32. Drowning in a sea of logic
this monstrous state of palsy
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#33. If there is a God, I'd like to look him in the face knowing I'd died as I lived. In conscious sin.
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#34. Hatch opens
Stark light
the rupture begins
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#35. I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.
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#36. There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful
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#37. If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.
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#38. You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.
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#39. It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind
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#40. M The heat is going out of me.
C The heart is going out of me.
B I feel nothing, nothing.
I feel nothing.
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#41. A room of expressionless faces staring blankly at my pain, so devoid of meaning there must be evil intent.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.
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#45. 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.
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#46. I feel your pain but I cannot hold your life in my hands.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.
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#50. 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.
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#51. And when I don't feel it, it's pointless.
Think about getting up it's pointless.
Think about eating it's pointless.
Think about dressing it's pointless.
Think about speaking it's pointless.
Think about dying only it's totally
fucking pointless.
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#52. At home I'm clean. Like it never happened. Tell them you saw me. Tell them ... you saw me.
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#54. 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
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#55. I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.
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#56. I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die.
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#58. I sing without hope on the boundary
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#59. They will love me for that which destroys me.
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#60. You can only kill yourself if you're not already dead.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Death is my lover and he wants to move in.
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#63. 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
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#64. Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane
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#65. Long before I had the chance to adore all of you, I adored the bits of you I could see.
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#66. Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.
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#67. 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.
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#68. What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.
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#69. No one can hate me more than I hate myself.
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#70. Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot.
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#71. 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
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#73. I'm tired of my life and my mind wants to die.
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#74. As a child I liked to piss on the carpet.
The carpet rotted and I blamed it on the dog.
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#75. A fourteen year old to steal my virginity on the moor and rape me till I come.
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