Susan Sontag Quotes

Love is only one of many passions.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

I don't know what love means.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

There is nothing you can control about love.

I'm a little confused by love.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about.

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

I'm always in love.

You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.

After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?

As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.

Love has many faces.

I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

Love is based on imagination.

Well, there are different levels of love.

People can misconstrue closeness for love.

With love, there are so many layers to it that you can write all day about it. It's not just heartbreak or falling in love; there's so many different ways to look at it.

I think everyone knows what it is like being in love. It's never a smooth thing. Whether you are happily together or not.