850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

What do I enjoy? Music, being in love, children, sleeping, meat.

What do I enjoy?MusicBeing in loveChildrenSleepingMeat

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I’m here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.

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.

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!