Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Susan Sontag Quotes: The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
         

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.


Susan Sontag
Check all other quotes by Susan Sontag

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Susan Sontag Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Thu. 25 Apr. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/The-fear-of-becoming-old-is-born-1085802>.





Check out


Other quotes of Susan Sontag



A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.



The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.



A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.



What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.



I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.



In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.



Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.



It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.



A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.





Other quotes you may like


You drank my blood." With one arched brow, Rachel seared Rees with her stare."Yes, but only because he commanded it.

You drank my blood." With one arched brow, Rachel seared Rees with her stare."Yes, but only because he commanded it.



See me once with loveMake me alive.

See me once with loveMake me alive.



Sometimes I Wonder Where Those Spirits Go After Departing From The Bodies, Then I Realize, They Are All Around Us, In The Nature, Full of Spirits In Different Forms....

Sometimes I Wonder Where Those Spirits Go After Departing From The Bodies, Then I Realize, They Are All Around Us, In The Nature, Full of Spirits In Different Forms....



If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.

If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.



When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.

When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.



Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.

Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.



If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you.

If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you.



Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.



I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.

I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.



You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.

You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.". Author of this quote is Susan Sontag. This quote is about wish, life, fear, recognition, born, becoming,.