Susan Sontag Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Moving, Passion

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

• Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

  Susan Sontag

  Character, Tests, Moral

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

• Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.

  Susan Sontag

  Character, Interesting, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.12, Macmillan

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