Quotes by Sontag, Susan

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalanc >>

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do wh >>

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst co >>

Quotations about Pessimism

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not >>

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air. >>

I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist. >>

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

Sontag, Susan