850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

Etymologically, ‘patient’ means sufferer.

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of a greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I’m doing.

My repressed feelings leak out – slowly – in the form of resentment – a continual leakage of resentment.

He looked into the hole, and like any hole it said, Jump.

To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world – in order to set up a shadow world of “meanings.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. OSCAR WILDE, in a letter.

Experiences aren’t pornographic; only images and representations – structures of the imagination – are.

The “Art Nouveau” appeal of smoking: manufacture your own pneuma, spirit. “I’m alive.” “I’m decorative.