Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGMy library is an archive of longings.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
-
-
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Love dies because its birth was an error.
SUSAN SONTAG -
My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAG -
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG -
How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAG -
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG -
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG -
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG -
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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 -
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG -
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG






