Susan Sontag Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling.

  Susan Sontag

  Compassion, Bored, Cynical

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.101, Macmillan

• The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Writing, Feelings

• Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.

  Susan Sontag

  Movie, Art, Ideas

• taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

  Susan Sontag

  Ideas, People, Taste

• Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

  Susan Sontag

  Compassion, Needs, Action

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.101, Macmillan

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