The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAGThe camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
-
-
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG -
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 -
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 -
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAG -
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAG -
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG -
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG -
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG -
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG -
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG