Susan Sontag Quotes

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

Great loves too must be endured.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

People will still love and hurt and yearn.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.

At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.

I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive.

I get really homesick inside.