Dual citizenship Quote by 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 well and…

— Susan Sontag

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer…

— Susan Sontag

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

— Susan Griffin

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association…

— Susan Sontag

“Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.”

— Lauren Slater

“In a sick country every step to health is an insult to those who live on its sickness.”

— Bernard Malamud

We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

— Lionel Trilling

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that…

— Sholem Asch

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

— Andrew Solomon

“This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in…

— David Dellinger

“Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.”

— Oscar Wilde

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt