Age Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Believe Health Illness Pursue Reality Sickness
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it! — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“Instead of seeing sickness as a problem, something to correct, we accept it as a fact of life. We’ve all agreed to this arbitrary… — Pam Grout 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
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image