Susan Sontag Quotes

It's not wrong to be beautiful; what's wrong is the obligation to be so.

Art is seduction, not abduction.

Paraphrasing the wise: No one can think and hit someone at the same time.

Depression is melancholy without its charms.

Time exists so that not everything happens at the same time... and space exists so that not everything happens to you.

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

To love hurts. It's like giving yourself up to be skinned and knowing that at any moment the other person could leave taking your skin with them.

I write to define myself, an act of self-creation, in a dialogue with myself, with writers I admire, both living and dead, and with ideal readers. Because it gives me pleasure. I'm not sure exactly what purpose my work serves.