Quotes from Sarah Kane

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

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

Your hair is an act of God.

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

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.

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

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

No one survives life.

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.

I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally and intellectually demanding. I love football. The level of analysis that you listen to on the terraces is astonishing. If people did that in the theatre... but they don't. They expect to sit back and not participate.

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

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

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.

I am the beast at the end of the rope.

I hope you never understand, because I like you. I like you, I like you.

When depression visits I shall hang myself to the sound of my lover's breathing

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this.

I know. I'm angry because I understand, not because I don't.

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

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.

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.

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.

They will love me for that which destroys me the sword in my dreams the dust of my thoughts the sickness that breeds in the folds of my mind

But I am not here and never have been.