Books Quote by Susan Sontag

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

— Susan Sontag

“Our actions are reflections, not of who we are, but who we think we are.”

— Justin Young

“If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do…

— Richard Kearney

“once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the deeds, both…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

“For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world,…

— Lan Samantha Chang

“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as a collective…

— Alok Mishra

“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read the latest…

— Marcel Proust

“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for…

— C.S. Lewis

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely, your path struggles on through incomprehensible mankind. All the more futile perhaps for keeping…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being…

— Ann Patchett

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people…

— T.S. Eliot