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Susan Sontag Quotes

Susan Sontag

American Writerand filmaker

Nationality: American
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Type: Author
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Birth: 1933-2004
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of critici
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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Our emotions are only ''incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Chr
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same wa
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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
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It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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All cases are unique and very similar to others.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
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Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
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Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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