Famous Susan Sontag Quotes

  • I have always been full of lust – as I am now – but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. – Susan Sontag

    I have always been full of lust – as I am now – but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.– Susan Sontag

  • I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me. – Susan Sontag

    I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.– Susan Sontag

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

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

  • I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting. – Susan Sontag

    I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.– Susan Sontag

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

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

  • 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 Sontag

    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 Sontag

  • To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. – Susan Sontag

    To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.– Susan Sontag

  • One can never ask anyone to change a feeling. – Susan Sontag

    One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.– Susan Sontag

  • All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. – Susan Sontag

    All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.– Susan Sontag

  • All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation. – Susan Sontag

    All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.– Susan Sontag