Quotes by : Susan Sontag

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything....

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.....

Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered....

The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the....

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical....

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely....

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]....

No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely,....