Susan Sontag Quotes

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

I'm a lazy sod.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active.

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he is able to act and in the long run the less he is able to feel.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.

I am very lazy.

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.