Susan Sontag Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Mysterious, Relation

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.128, Macmillan

• Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Couple, Hunting

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.190, Macmillan

• The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Strong, Passion

  Christine Allison, Susan Sontag (1978). “The benefactor: a novel”, Delta

• Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Simple, Desire

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