I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for m… — Quoted

“Quotes”

“I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.”

Susan Sontag · Dreams

⇩

Show me another

Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.

Susan Sontag

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Time

Susan Sontag

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Society

Susan Sontag

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

History

Susan Sontag

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Failure