One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
– Susan Sontag
Related Quotes:
- I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it. – Susan Sontag
- Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. – Susan Sontag
- My library is an archive of longings. – Susan Sontag
- Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.) – Susan Sontag
- Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. – Susan Sontag
- Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. – Susan Sontag
- It is intolerable to have one’s sufferings twinned with anybody else’s. – Susan Sontag
- Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. – Susan Sontag
- With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind – like most historical evidence. – Susan Sontag
- The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local. – Susan Sontag
- I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces -˜intelligence. – Susan Sontag
- To the militant, identity is everything. – Susan Sontag
- Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag
- The only interesting ideas are heresies – Susan Sontag
- Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan Sontag
- Most of my reading is rereading. – Susan Sontag
- One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. – Susan Sontag
- Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. – Susan Sontag
- Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex. – Susan Sontag
- Rules of taste enforce structures of power. – Susan Sontag
- With genius, as with beauty — all, well almost all, is forgiven. – Susan Sontag
- Depression is melancholy minus its charms. – Susan Sontag
- Can I love someone…and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings. – Susan Sontag
- It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices. – Susan Sontag
- There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: ‘Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. – Susan Sontag
- How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion! – Susan Sontag
- A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w – Susan Sontag
- But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else. – Susan Sontag
- If one could amputate part of one’s consciousness… – Susan Sontag
- Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. – Susan Sontag
- Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.) – Susan Sontag
- All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. – Susan Sontag
- All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation. – Susan Sontag
- To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. – 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
- My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. – Susan Sontag
- I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting. – Susan Sontag
- The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication – Susan Sontag
- I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me. – 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