Susan Sontag Quotes

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Susan Sontag

Guilt, Logic, Innocence

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag

Death, Live, Cannot

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan Sontag

Best, Society, Mad

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan Sontag

Painter, Constructs, Discloses

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag

Easy, Fiction, Soft

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
Susan Sontag

Sex, Aids, Obliges

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag

Others, Ambition, Feeds

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
Susan Sontag

Important, Whose, Disease

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
Susan Sontag

Nature, History, Seen

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag

Future, Past, Present

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Susan Sontag

Art, Nothing, Less

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
Susan Sontag

Bad, Wrong, Less

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Susan Sontag

Suffering, Deeply, Feared

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
Susan Sontag

Life, Forever, Details

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

Today, End, Book

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Susan Sontag

Someone, Idea, Writer

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Susan Sontag

Art, Science, Films

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
Susan Sontag

Beautiful, Successful, Become

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Susan Sontag

Evil, Blame, Illness

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
Susan Sontag

Thought, Universal, Signs

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Susan Sontag

Liberty, Makes, Capitalism

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag

Love, Famous, Strong

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

Two, Problems, Ways

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan Sontag

Taste, Quotations, Surrealist

To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag

Importance, Photograph, Confer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 28, 1933

Died: December 28, 2004

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