Sarah Kane Quotes

Reality doesn't interest me.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

Reality is a powerful solvent.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

The illusion is we are only physical.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.