Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.
Susan Sontag
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
Author
Essayist
Feminist
Film Critic
Film Director
Historian
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
New York City
New York
Susan Rosenblatt
Marriage
Repetition
Creation
Institution
Point
Invented
Dependencies
Strong
Whoever
Dulling
Feelings
Mutual
Tormentor
Best
Aim
Dependency
Whole
Committed
Ingenious
Institutions
Aims
More quotes by Susan Sontag
The really important thing is not to reject anything.
Susan Sontag
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
Susan Sontag
I love to read the way people love to watch television.
Susan Sontag
The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.
Susan Sontag
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
Susan Sontag
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag
The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.
Susan Sontag
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
Susan Sontag
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
Susan Sontag
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.
Susan Sontag
What we need is to use what we have.
Susan Sontag
It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.
Susan Sontag
I certainly identify myself as a feminist.
Susan Sontag
Taste has no system and no proofs.
Susan Sontag
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
Susan Sontag
By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.
Susan Sontag
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
Susan Sontag
The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.
Susan Sontag
How boring just to be a body.
Susan Sontag
When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.
Susan Sontag