It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
SUSAN SONTAGWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
-
-
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
SUSAN SONTAG -
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAG -
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAG -
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG -
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG -
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAG -
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG