Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag quote Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
Susan Sontag quote Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Susan Sontag quote Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated.
Susan Sontag quote A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Susan Sontag quote Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag quote A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag quote Biography
American writer
