Life Quotes by Susan Sontag

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

— Susan Sontag

God, living is enormous!

— Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

— Susan Sontag

“That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.”

— Susan Sontag

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

— Susan Sontag

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

— Susan Sontag

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

— Susan Sontag

“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.”

— Susan Sontag

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life…

— Susan Sontag

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly…

— Susan Sontag

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

— Susan Sontag

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

— Susan Sontag

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

— Susan Sontag

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

— Susan Sontag

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

— Susan Sontag

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now…

— Susan Sontag

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and…

— Susan Sontag

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever…

— Susan Sontag

“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. With him I…

— Susan Sontag

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time…

— Susan Sontag

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification.…

— Susan Sontag

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences…

— Susan Sontag

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life…

— Susan Sontag

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All…

— Susan Sontag

That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems…

— Susan Sontag

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make…

— Susan Sontag

“Two kinds of writers. Those who think this life is all there is, and want to describe everything: the fall, the battle,…

— Susan Sontag

“Well, it does educate us about life. I wouldn’t be the person I am, I wouldn’t understand what I understand, were it…

— Susan Sontag

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is…

— Susan Sontag

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

— Susan Sontag

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the…

— Susan Sontag

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

— Susan Sontag

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

— Susan Sontag

“We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life…

— Susan Sontag

The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions…

— Susan Sontag

“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of…

— Susan Sontag