Sarah Kane Quotes

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Hope is the mainspring of life.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Without art there is no hope.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'