Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image ““I am not myself with people [...] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.”” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Sometimes I feel more alone when I'm with other people than when I'm by myself.” — Scarlett Andrews Copy Share Image
“If you can't be yourself with yourself, how can you be you with other people?” — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“...it isn’t other people who decide if you feel alone, it’s yourself. Only I didn’t know that yet.” — Kai Meyer Copy Share Image
“Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read.” — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
“You should know that for a little while, you were not alone. Not alone.” — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“It was true that one could be more alone with someone than by oneself.” — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image