Suicide Quote by Susan Sontag

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of…

— Jean Racine

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to…

— Bertrand Russell

The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a…

— John Dos Passos

All action is vicarious faith.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession…

— Marita Golden

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching for your…

— Richard G. Scott

public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our…

— Winifred Holtby

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright…

— David Boies

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

— Pope Pius XI

It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The…

— George Santayana

Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

— Clive Barker

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer