Susan Sontag Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

2. The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. The Benefactor

3. All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.

4. Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

5. The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. The Benefactor

6. Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed. Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

7. Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.