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Top 450 Susan Sontag Quotes (2025 Update)
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Susan Sontag Quote: “Etymologically, ‘patient’ means sufferer.”

451. “Etymologically, ‘patient’ means sufferer.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Opinions are like some kind of crust that grows on top of things and you want to kind of peel them off.”

452. “Opinions are like some kind of crust that grows on top of things and you want to kind of peel them off.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.”

453. “Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a “lamp”; not a woman, but a “woman.” To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.”

454. “Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a “lamp”; not a woman, but a “woman.” To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “One of the author’s most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith...”

455. “One of the author’s most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith...”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Photographs state the innocence, the vulnerability of lives heading toward their own destruction, and this link between photography and death haunts all photographs of people.”

456. “Photographs state the innocence, the vulnerability of lives heading toward their own destruction, and this link between photography and death haunts all photographs of people.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Beautifying is one classic operation of the camera, and it tends to bleach out a moral response to what is shown. Uglifying, showing something at its worst, is a more modern function: didactic, it invites an active response. For photographs to accuse, and possibly to alter conduct, they must shock.”

457. “Beautifying is one classic operation of the camera, and it tends to bleach out a moral response to what is shown. Uglifying, showing something at its worst, is a more modern function: didactic, it invites an active response. For photographs to accuse, and possibly to alter conduct, they must shock.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “To discuss the idea of silence in art is to discuss the various alternatives within this essentially unalterable situation. 4.”

458. “To discuss the idea of silence in art is to discuss the various alternatives within this essentially unalterable situation. 4.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “For boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”

459. “For boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion.”

460. “To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Denying that art is mere expression, the later myth rather relates art to the mind’s need or capacity for self-estrangement.”

461. “Denying that art is mere expression, the later myth rather relates art to the mind’s need or capacity for self-estrangement.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a ‘lamp’; not a woman, but a ‘woman’.”

462. “Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a ‘lamp’; not a woman, but a ‘woman’.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Like other diseases that arouse feelings of shame, AIDS is often a secret, but not from the patient. A cancer diagnosis was frequently concealed from patients by their families; an AIDS diagnosis is at least as often concealed from their families by patients.”

463. “Like other diseases that arouse feelings of shame, AIDS is often a secret, but not from the patient. A cancer diagnosis was frequently concealed from patients by their families; an AIDS diagnosis is at least as often concealed from their families by patients.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “To look at something which is “empty” is still to be looking, still to be seeing something – if only the ghosts of one’s own expectations.”

464. “To look at something which is “empty” is still to be looking, still to be seeing something – if only the ghosts of one’s own expectations.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Nothing can match the elation of the chronically melancholy when joy arrives. But before being allowed to arrive, it must lay siege to the weary heart. Let me in, it mews, it bellows. The heart must be forced.”

465. “Nothing can match the elation of the chronically melancholy when joy arrives. But before being allowed to arrive, it must lay siege to the weary heart. Let me in, it mews, it bellows. The heart must be forced.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “I have such strong tendencies to abandon myself to someone with whom I’m in love – to want to give up everything, to be possessed totally as well as to possess totally.”

466. “I have such strong tendencies to abandon myself to someone with whom I’m in love – to want to give up everything, to be possessed totally as well as to possess totally.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy.”

467. “Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking.”

468. “Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “To talk about camp is therefore to betray it. If the betrayal can be defended, it will be for the edification it provides, or the dignity of the conflict it resolves.”

469. “To talk about camp is therefore to betray it. If the betrayal can be defended, it will be for the edification it provides, or the dignity of the conflict it resolves.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing ‘we’ can do – but who is that ‘we’? – and nothing ‘they’ can do either – and who are ‘they’ – then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”

470. “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing ‘we’ can do – but who is that ‘we’? – and nothing ‘they’ can do either – and who are ‘they’ – then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it. That is why I want to talk about it, and why I can. For no one who wholeheartedly shares in a given sensibility can analyze it; he can only, whatever his intention, exhibit it.”

471. “I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it. That is why I want to talk about it, and why I can. For no one who wholeheartedly shares in a given sensibility can analyze it; he can only, whatever his intention, exhibit it.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.”

472. “No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “To say a feeling, an impression is to diminish it – expel it.”

473. “To say a feeling, an impression is to diminish it – expel it.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “What is the secret of suddenly beginning to write, finding a voice? Try whiskey. Also being warm.”

474. “What is the secret of suddenly beginning to write, finding a voice? Try whiskey. Also being warm.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Taste has no system and no proofs. But there is something like a logic of taste: the consistent sensibility which underlies and gives rise to a certain taste.”

475. “Taste has no system and no proofs. But there is something like a logic of taste: the consistent sensibility which underlies and gives rise to a certain taste.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “The connoisseur of Camp has found more ingenious pleasures. Not in Latin poetry and rare wines and velvet jackets, but in the coarsest, commonest pleasures, in the arts of the masses.”

476. “The connoisseur of Camp has found more ingenious pleasures. Not in Latin poetry and rare wines and velvet jackets, but in the coarsest, commonest pleasures, in the arts of the masses.”

— Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Quote: “Here is where the modern cult of love enters: it is the main way in which we test ourselves for strength of feeling, and find ourselves deficient.”

477. “Here is where the modern cult of love enters: it is the main way in which we test ourselves for strength of feeling, and find ourselves deficient.”

— Susan Sontag

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