Love Quotes by Susan Sontag

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

— Susan Sontag

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

— Susan Sontag

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

— Susan Sontag

Photographers are always imposing

— Susan Sontag

Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

— Susan Sontag

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

— Susan Sontag

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

— Susan Sontag

Taste has no system and no proofs.

— Susan Sontag

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

— Susan Sontag

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

— Susan Sontag

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

— Susan Sontag

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

— Susan Sontag

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

— Susan Sontag

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

— Susan Sontag

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the…

— 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

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just…

— Susan Sontag

“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not…

— Susan Sontag

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

— Susan Sontag

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what…

— Susan Sontag

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

— Susan Sontag

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they…

— Susan Sontag

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching…

— Susan Sontag

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert…

— Susan Sontag

A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his…

— Susan Sontag

“Being in love (l’amour fou) a pathological variant of loving. Being in love = addiction, obsession, exclusion of others, insatiable demand for…

— Susan Sontag

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to…

— Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.

— Susan Sontag

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

— Susan Sontag

Love dies because its birth was an error.

— Susan Sontag

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

— Susan Sontag

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

— Susan Sontag

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

— Susan Sontag

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

— Susan Sontag

“I don’ t want to learn anything from the failure of this love.”

— Susan Sontag

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.

— Susan Sontag

What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

— Susan Sontag