People Quotes by Susan Sontag

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

— Susan Sontag

I love to read the way people love to watch television.

— Susan Sontag

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

“I am not myself with people [...] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.”

— Susan Sontag

Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.

— Susan Sontag

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

— Susan Sontag

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

— Susan Sontag

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies…

— Susan Sontag

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

— Susan Sontag

I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as…

— Susan Sontag

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid.…

— Susan Sontag

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it…

— Susan Sontag

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves…

— Susan Sontag

In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful…

— Susan Sontag

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the…

— Susan Sontag

Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious…

— Susan Sontag

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual…

— Susan Sontag

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had…

— Susan Sontag

I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth…

— Susan Sontag

People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of…

— Susan Sontag

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working…

— Susan Sontag

Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much.…

— Susan Sontag

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently…

— Susan Sontag

There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools…

— Susan Sontag

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

— Susan Sontag

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

— Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

— Susan Sontag

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

— Susan Sontag

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

— Susan Sontag

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people…

— Susan Sontag

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space…

— Susan Sontag

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

— 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

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

— 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