Susan Sontag Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

  Susan Sontag

  Aggravation, World Suffering, Suffering

  "AIDS and Its Metaphors" by Susan Sontagm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ch. 4, (p. 125), 1989.

• To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

  Susan Sontag

  Suffering, Doe, Compassionate

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.21, Macmillan

• Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.

  Susan Sontag

  Distance, Suffering, Way

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.117, Macmillan

• There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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