"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the
~ Susan Sontag ~












More Susan Sontag quotes
"I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so ...
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precis...
"Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in ...
"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.
"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insec...
"It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know...
"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
"It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices.
"Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.
"One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
"Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.
"Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.