Susan Sontag Quotes About Illness

Quotes about: Illness

• Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

  Susan Sontag

  Health, Night, Sick

  Illness as Metaphor preface (1978)

• Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

  Susan Sontag

  Believe, Health, Reality

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

• Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

  Susan Sontag

  Unjust, Illness, Metaphor

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.56, Penguin UK

• 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

• Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

  Susan Sontag

  Disease, Mystery, Illness

• Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

  Susan Sontag

  Evil, Needs, Blame

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.74, Penguin UK

• The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

  Susan Sontag

  Perspective, Exotic, Association

• The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Interesting, Illness

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

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