22 Quotes & Sayings By Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane was born in Guildford, England. She went to the National Youth Theatre School in London, followed by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She was a member of The Arches Theatre Company and acted in plays alongside Vanessa Redgrave. She also had two stints with the Royal Shakespeare Company Read more

After graduating from RADA, Kane became an actor, appearing in numerous TV commercials until her first film role in The Krays (1990). Her other films include I Want Your Love (1991), Lipstick on Your Collar (1992) and Heartland (1993). She also appeared in two short films: A Mother's Story (1991) and The Other Side of Me (1992).

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And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck and kiss your feet and hold your hand and go for a meal and not mind when you eat my food and meet you at Rudy's and talk about the day and type up your letters and carry your boxes and laugh at your paranoia and give you tapes you don't listen to and watch great films and watch terrible films and complain about the radio and take pictures of you when you're sleeping and get up to fetch you coffee and bagels and Danish and go to Florent and drink coffee at midnight and have you steal my cigarettes and never be able to find a match and tell you about the tv programme I saw the night before and take you to the eye hospital and not laugh at your jokes and want you in the morning but let you sleep for a while and kiss your back and stroke your skin and tell you how much I love your hair your eyes your lips your neck your breasts your arse your but keep on asking because though you think I don't mean it I do always have from the first time I asked you and wander the city thinking it's empty without you and want what you want and think I'm losing myself but know I'm safe with you and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me because you don't deserve any less and answer your questions when I'd rather not and tell you the truth when I really don't want to and try to be honest because I know you prefer it and think it's all over but hang on in for just ten more minutes before you throw me out of your life and forget who I am and try to get closer to you because it's beautiful learning to know you and well worth the effort and speak German to you badly and Hebrew to you worse and make love with you at three in the morning and somehow somehow somehow communicate some of the overwhelming undying overpowering unconditional all-encompassing heart-enriching mind-expanding on-going never-ending love I have for you. Sarah Kane
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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? Sarah Kane
Death is my lover and he wants to move in.
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Death is my lover and he wants to move in. Sarah Kane
Body and soul can never be married I need to...
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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 Sarah Kane
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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. Sarah Kane
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...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me... Sarah Kane
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We made love, and then she threw up. Sarah Kane
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There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful Sarah Kane
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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
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He's following me... He needs to have a secret but he can´t help telling the heat is going out of me. The heart is going out of me, and though she cannot remember she cannot forget. Clutching a fistful of sand. What ties me to you is guilt. I crossed two rivers and wept by one I am the beast at the end of the rope Happy and free. Sarah Kane
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The capture the rapture the rupture of a soula solo symphony Sarah Kane
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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
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Your disbelief cures nothing. Sarah Kane
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I am much fucking angrier than you think. Sarah Kane
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Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane Sarah Kane
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HIPPOLYTUS: I can't sin against a God I don't believe in. Sarah Kane
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I've never in my life had a problem giving another person what theywant. 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 fuckingdeep I can't believe and I can't be that for you. Because I can't find you. Sarah Kane
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Drowning in a sea of logicthis monstrous state of palsy Sarah Kane
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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
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- Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.( Silence.)- I don't feel contempt.- No?- No. It's not your fault.- It's not your fault. That's all I ever hear, it's not your fault, it's an illness, it's not your fault, I know it's not my fault. You've told me that so often I'm beginning to think it is my fault.- It's not your fault.- I KNOW.- But you allow it. Sarah Kane
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A circle is the only geometric shape defined by its centre. No chicken and egg about it, the centre came first, the circumference follows. The earth, by definition, has a centre. And only the fool that knows it can go wherever he pleases, knowing the centre will hold him down, stop him flying out of orbit. But when your sense of centre shifts, comes whizzing to the surface, the balance has gone. The balance has gone. The balance my baby has gone. . Sarah Kane