Quotes from Sarah Kane

I have reached the end of this dreary and repugnant tale of a sense interned in an alien carcass and lumpen by the malignant spirit of the moral majority...

There's a thing between us, an awesome f*cking thing, can you feel it? It burns. Meant to be. We were. Meant to be.

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

Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you for rejecting me by never being there, fuck you for making me feel like shit about myself, fuck you for bleeding the fucking love and life out of me, fuck my father for fucking up my life for good and fuck my mother for not leaving him, but most of all, fuck you God for making me love a person who does not exist. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU.

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?

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.

You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.

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

They will love me for that which destroys me.

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.

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

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.

I love you still, Against my will.

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.

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.

No one survives life.

I am much fucking angrier than you think.

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

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.

Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

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

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

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

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