Sarah Kane citations

“Elle parle d'elle à la troisième personne parce que l'idée d'être celle qu'elle est, de s'admettre telle quelle, c'est plus que son orgueil ne peut en supporter”

“Tu me remplis la tête comme ne savent le faire que les absents”

“C'est la vanité, ce n'est pas d'être équilibré qui va me garder indemne”

“Le propre d'une métaphore, c'est d'être réelle”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“They will love me for that which destroys me.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Death is my lover and he wants to move in.”

“Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane”

“I've faked orgasms before, but this is the first time I've faked not having an orgasm.”

“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.”

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

“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”

“I am the beast at the end of the rope.”

“I’m tired of my life and my mind wants to die.”

“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.”