Quotes by Sontag, Susan

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person >>

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a >>

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of >>

Quotations about Disease

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made m >>

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism. >>

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instinct >>

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

Sontag, Susan