Sarah Kane Quotes

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• 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

  Humanity, Life Is, Humour

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

  Sarah Kane

  Sassy, Boys, Cry

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• 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

  Beautiful, Hopeful, Feelings

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• Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

  Sarah Kane

  And Love, Save Me, Only Love

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.174, A&C Black

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• Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.

  Sarah Kane

  Glasses, Here I Am, Dancing

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• No one survives life.

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  Sarah Kane (1998). “Crave”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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• I love you still, Against my will.

  Sarah Kane

  Love You, I Still Love You, Still Love You

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

  Sarah Kane

  Tired, Years, Mind

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.211, A&C Black

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• You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.

  Sarah Kane

  Feelings, Messages, Mixed Feelings

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.165, A&C Black

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• 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

  Pride, Talking, Ideas

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• 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 Like You, Strong, Hate

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

  Sarah Kane

  Reality, Mind, Body

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.209, A&C Black

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

  Sarah Kane

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Sobriety

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.220, A&C Black

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• They will love me for that which destroys me.

  Sarah Kane

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.213, A&C Black

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• 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

  Pain, Emotional, People

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.195, A&C Black

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• 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

  Loss, Kissing, Years

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.218, A&C Black

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• 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

  Mind, Attempting, Please

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.220, A&C Black

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• to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free

  Sarah Kane

  Nurse, Support, Comfort

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.235, A&C Black

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• 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

  Done

  Sarah Kane (1998). “Crave”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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

  Sarah Kane

  Would Be, Bones, Collapse

  Sarah Kane (1998). “Crave”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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

  Sarah Kane

  Fall, People, Littles

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

  Sarah Kane

  Mind, Faces, Mets

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.245, A&C Black

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• 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

  Play, Mind, Lots Of Friends

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• I don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.

  Sarah Kane

  Wish, Christ

  Sarah Kane (1998). “Crave”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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• I am the beast at the end of the rope.

  Sarah Kane

  Rope, Beast, Ends

  Sarah Kane (1998). “Crave”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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