Susan Sontag Quotes about Life

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I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

Susan Sontag

Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

Susan Sontag

Life, Spiritual, Athlete

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Susan Sontag

Life, Art, Passion

Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

Susan Sontag

Life, Moving, Able