Susan Sontag Quotes About Metaphor

Quotes about: Metaphor

• 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

• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Military, Health, Medicine

• The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Journey, Voyages

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

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