Quotes by Sontag, Susan

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which huma >>

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that >>

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being >>

Quotations about Disease

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's da >>

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm? >>

Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has >>

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Sontag, Susan