The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Copied!

Susan Sontag

Copied!

Create Short URL Publish Text About This Quote Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more

Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER

I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS...

My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER

When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE

There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w...
YODA

If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA

There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about...
DAVID LEVITHAN

There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The R...
DEYTH BANGER

Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But w...
SUZY KASSEM

Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI

If a man has learned to think, no matter what he may think about, he is always thinking of his own d...
WILLIAM BARRETT

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritu...
HENRY REED

The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no ...
JAMES FREY Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody...
WESLEY CLARK

There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no ...
SUZY KASSEM

Truth is always a delusion.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral reperto...
RICHARD MORRIS

There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT My position would be that I couldn't comment about anything until speaking with the chancellor and t...
JOHN DESKO

There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that the...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where th...
C.S. LEWIS Just a moment ago, I was thinking of postponing my dream for tomorrow, but I decided to take a look ...
PHILIP T. M.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I guess what I like the least about this is would be that there doesn't seem to be too much interest...
JULIA ROBERTS

There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable c...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them th...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. I...
DEYTH BANGER

Truth is a tendency.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Without sound,
There would be no music.
And without music,
There would be no life. SUZY KASSEM Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Yet without Chaos there would be no Creation, and perhaps no Creator. That is the simple truth of al...
MICHAEL MOORCOCK There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
WARD CHURCHILL If you forsake the truth for something else, then it is through the same thing, that the truth would...
DR HITESH C SHETH

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only t...
ANDRé BRETON

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no li...
HELEN KELLER

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
JOSEPH JOUBERT There is no truth in the story that he won't be making or releasing any more records.
LISA DAVIS

What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
C. JOYBELL C. There is no technology to shatter truth or master truth.
APURVA GAGLANI We had a lot of chatter and there were no attacks, ... Now that there's no chatter -- does that mean...
DAVID HEYMAN

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that cas...
PHILLIP E. JOHNSON The truth is, it's never about what someone does for you, but rather, what you've done for someone e...
DEBORAH SIMPSON

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the dr...
MOTHER TERESA There is no Truth in relationships, only Love or the lack of it.
CLANCY SARVIS There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the wo...
YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND There is no truth in
the story that he won't be making or releasing any more records.
LISA DAVIS I did and do believe, after all that I've seen and done, that if you project yourself into the mass ...
DANIEL MENDELSOHN

There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARD There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U...
ANGIE KARAN There is no truth to that rumor.
SEN. ROOSEVELT DAVID

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
MAHATMA GANDHI

What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the powe...
C. JOYBELL C.

Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth...
T.F. HODGE They were speaking about the situation that if you don't have a body, there is no case.
KARIN JANSSEN I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as ...
CHARLIE HUNTER

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That...
DAVID LEVITHAN

MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE

Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
SUZY KASSEM

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. CHESTERTON

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G.K. CHESTERTON

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is...
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO Death is the only evidence of life. If there were no death, there would have been only an existence.
EPHDAN The truth is, I'm not body confident.
TAMSIN EGERTON The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Truth is the best defense.
WARD CHURCHILL

A gift of truth is the gift of love.
DAVID ICKE

Truth is a great flirt.
FRANZ LISZT

The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted.
MATT BERNINGER

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR. Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in o...
HU SHIH

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
ELLIS PETERS

If there were no bad speculations there could be no good investments; if there were no wild ventures...
F. W. HIRST

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no...
DALAI LAMA XIV

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there
THOMAS MIDDLETON

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
JOSé SARAMAGO

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
JOSE SARAMAGO

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.
WILLIAM BARRETT

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can b...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking ...
EDWARD TELLER I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
PADDY ASHDOWN

Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be co...
JEFFREY FRY

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so...
FINN WITTROCK

More Susan Sontag

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere...
SUSAN SONTAG

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
SUSAN SONTAG

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write...
SUSAN SONTAG

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...
SUSAN SONTAG

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precio...
SUSAN SONTAG

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the fin...
SUSAN SONTAG

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating th...
SUSAN SONTAG

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is,...
SUSAN SONTAG

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to the...
SUSAN SONTAG

Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...
SUSAN SONTAG

American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chro...
SUSAN SONTAG

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of A...
SUSAN SONTAG

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intelle...
SUSAN SONTAG

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe...
SUSAN SONTAG

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art ...
SUSAN SONTAG

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the ra...
SUSAN SONTAG

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading towa...
SUSAN SONTAG

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...
SUSAN SONTAG

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...
SUSAN SONTAG

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

[Speech upon being awa...
SUSAN SONTAG Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. I...
SUSAN SONTAG Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, e...
SUSAN SONTAG The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
SUSAN SONTAG The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less inter...
SUSAN SONTAG In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontroll...
SUSAN SONTAG The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAG Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be ...
SUSAN SONTAG With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the char...
SUSAN SONTAG The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion ...
SUSAN SONTAG Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
SUSAN SONTAG In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
SUSAN SONTAG A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains o...
SUSAN SONTAG Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub...
SUSAN SONTAG What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full hu...
SUSAN SONTAG Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative...
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the...
SUSAN SONTAG Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of men...
SUSAN SONTAG Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms,...
SUSAN SONTAG Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
SUSAN SONTAG We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting...
SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...
SUSAN SONTAG Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence,...
SUSAN SONTAG AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It ...
SUSAN SONTAG AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder...
SUSAN SONTAG I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a pa...
SUSAN SONTAG Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us...
SUSAN SONTAG Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone n...
SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...
SUSAN SONTAG What we need is to use what we have.
SUSAN SONTAG Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
SUSAN SONTAG In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized,...
SUSAN SONTAG The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and...
SUSAN SONTAG Taste has no system and no proofs.
SUSAN SONTAG The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture...
SUSAN SONTAG One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves....
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kind...
SUSAN SONTAG Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability....
SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t...
SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
SUSAN SONTAG Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists...
SUSAN SONTAG Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
SUSAN SONTAG What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w...
SUSAN SONTAG Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less intere...
SUSAN SONTAG Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the s...
SUSAN SONTAG For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of ...
SUSAN SONTAG The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured m...
SUSAN SONTAG To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAG The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wis...
SUSAN SONTAG Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
SUSAN SONTAG Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminenc...
SUSAN SONTAG Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past...
SUSAN SONTAG Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, th...
SUSAN SONTAG My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAG We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...
SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own exper...
SUSAN SONTAG We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if n...
SUSAN SONTAG Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to the...
SUSAN SONTAG Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after yea...
SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams
SUSAN SONTAG I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really h...
SUSAN SONTAG Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and p...
SUSAN SONTAG Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on va...
SUSAN SONTAG Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an ind...
SUSAN SONTAG Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to w...
SUSAN SONTAG Depression is melancholy minus its charms.
SUSAN SONTAG Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational term...
SUSAN SONTAG The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in...
SUSAN SONTAG Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and p...
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intelle...
SUSAN SONTAG A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remai...
SUSAN SONTAG I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a pass...
SUSAN SONTAG Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular style. It is the love of the exagge...
SUSAN SONTAG 'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love o...
SUSAN SONTAG It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAG The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions
SUSAN SONTAG Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by...
SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Pre...
SUSAN SONTAG Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
SUSAN SONTAG Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more l...
SUSAN SONTAG Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.
SUSAN SONTAG All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memor...
SUSAN SONTAG The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion o...
SUSAN SONTAG American "energy." . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed ...
SUSAN SONTAG Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or t...
SUSAN SONTAG Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s...
SUSAN SONTAG Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citiz...
SUSAN SONTAG Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . [...
SUSAN SONTAG People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens...
SUSAN SONTAG So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympath...
SUSAN SONTAG All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If ...
SUSAN SONTAG To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which doe...
SUSAN SONTAG Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.

Photographs ar...
SUSAN SONTAG Desire has no history...
SUSAN SONTAG Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism...
SUSAN SONTAG Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--on...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics...
SUSAN SONTAG Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, dri...
SUSAN SONTAG How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!
SUSAN SONTAG As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel...
SUSAN SONTAG Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the ...
SUSAN SONTAG I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
SUSAN SONTAG Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen c...
SUSAN SONTAG [O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
SUSAN SONTAG Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...
SUSAN SONTAG Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate fo...
SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...
SUSAN SONTAG Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
SUSAN SONTAG Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extensi...
SUSAN SONTAG Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
SUSAN SONTAG Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth read...
SUSAN SONTAG All photographs are memento mori.
SUSAN SONTAG With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the char...
SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art / and, by analogy, our own exper...
SUSAN SONTAG The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual dis...
SUSAN SONTAG Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize,
SUSAN SONTAG Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminenc...
SUSAN SONTAG This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of b...
SUSAN SONTAG The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow t...
SUSAN SONTAG A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is ...
SUSAN SONTAG The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged,...
SUSAN SONTAG The Way We Live Now
SUSAN SONTAG Of course the movies are going to be the more visible, more high profile, for the simple reason that...
SUSAN SONTAG In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of styli...
SUSAN SONTAG He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
SUSAN SONTAG With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
SUSAN SONTAG Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "vi...
SUSAN SONTAG Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to det...
SUSAN SONTAG The aestheticizing tendency of photography is such that the medium which conveys distress ends by ne...
SUSAN SONTAG It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking...
SUSAN SONTAG But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybo...
SUSAN SONTAG Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled re...
SUSAN SONTAG It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other pe...
SUSAN SONTAG One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na...
SUSAN SONTAG The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations...
SUSAN SONTAG [Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ...
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
SUSAN SONTAG

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Copied!

Susan Sontag

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Susan Sontag

Share:

Related

More Susan Sontag