Sarah Kane Quotes

“...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...”
― Sarah Kane

“- 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, 4.48 Psychosis

“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 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 the 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 and sit on the steps smoking till your neighbour comes home and sit on the steps smoking till you come home and worry when you’re late and be amazed when you’re early and give you sunflowers and go to your party and dance till I’m black and be sorry when I’m wrong and happy when you forgive me and look at your photos and wish I’d known you forever and hear your voice in my ear and feel your skin on my skin (...) .”
― Sarah Kane, Crave

“Human search for unknown is an unquenchable thirst. For an artist, it is even more suicidal which she or he may deceitfully call as an adventure or simply an exploration of truth. Whatever may be called, it has all the conceits to give birth to the likes of Frieda Kahlo, Kafka, Van Gogh or even Sarah Kane.”
― Niloy Roy.