Illness As Metaphor Susan Sontag Quotes & Sayings

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge — Lailah Gifty Akita

The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) and inflict stigma is always worth challenging, and it does seem to have more limited credibility in the modern world, among people willing to be modern - the process is under surveillance now. With this illness, one that elicits so much guilt and shame, the effort to detach it from these meanings, these metaphors, seems particularly liberating, even consoling. But the metaphors cannot be distanced just by abstaining from them. They have to be exposed, criticized, belabored, used up. — Susan Sontag

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. — Susan Sontag

Make sure you want it enough. — Francis Kingdon Ward

There's a lot of sex. But it isn't about sex. — Peter Milligan

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust. — Susan Sontag

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists. — William Cornelius Van Horne

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was. — Brenda Perlin

Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea, — Ruta Sepetys