Susan Sontag Quotes

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

You want to move into worlds you've never been in before. It would be like going to the same restaurant all the time or going to the same place for vacation all the time. Where is the adventure in that?

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

The music was always the thing that has been in our world.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

These are mad times, but there have been a lot of mad times in the world.

You have not been called to change the world, but you have been called to change something.

Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.

Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

Dreams, books, are each a world.

the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don't think we go to new places just solely to say: "Well, we've been there," and come back, interesting though it may be. To me, each time we go farther into space we should use that to do basic research - basic research that can't be done before you go there.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.