Susan Sontag Quotes

We Do Not Find Among The Ancient Hebrews, Greeks, And The Orientals The Same Value Placed On Love Because We Do Not Find There The Same Positive Value Placed On Suffering. Suffering Was Not The Hallmark Of Seriousness; Rather, Seriousness Was Measured By One's Ability To Evade Or Transcend The Penalty Of Suffering, By One's Ability To Achieve Tranquillity And Equilibrium. In Contrast, The Sensibility We Have Inherited Identifies Spirituality And Seriousness With Turbulence, Suffering, Passion. For Two Thousand Years, Among Christians And Jews, It Has Been Spiritually Fashionable To Be In Pain. Thus It Is Not Love Which We Overvalue, But Suffering - More Precisely, The Spiritual Merits And Benefits Of Suffering.

Related Authors

• Adolph Murie
• Alexandra Teague
• Annette Messager
• Brandon Hobson
• Dan Culberson
• Jeannie Gunn
• John Stevenson
• Lewis William Walt
• Martin R. Lemieux
• Paul Clayton Gibbs
• Pauline Trigere
• Sarah Zettel

Related Topics

• Quotes About My Love Birthday

  I'm not really interested in the audience's enjoyment,' Cave mumbles once he has changed into clean pants. 'It doesn't bother me one way or another. I just don't give a — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

• Esperance Quotes

  There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. — Marie L'Esperance

• Old Age Love Quotes

  Then she revived him with an ardor and skill he could not have imagined in the meager pleasures of his solitary lovemaking, and without glory deprived him of his virginity. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Protect Our Relationship Quotes

  Connor swooped her into his arms. "Damn it, girl." He kissed her, curling his body around hers. "What kind of crazy stunt was that? Don't ever try to save me — Andrea Cremer

• Stopped Talking To Me Quotes

  My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed — Sherri Shepherd