Logo
Quote by Susan Sontag
Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fi

Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. – Susan Sontag

Other quotes by Susan Sontag

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag

Category:
Beauty
Author
Susan Sontag
Read Quote

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag

Category:
History
Author
Susan Sontag
Read Quote

A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. – Susan Sontag

Category:
Family
Author
Susan Sontag
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Depression
category

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. – Leonard Cohen

Category:
Depression

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. – Cesare Pavese

Category:
Depression

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that its damn hard to smile. – Judith Guest

Category:
Depression

Its a recession when your neighbor loses his job; its a depression when you lose your own. – Harry S Truman

Category:
Depression

Random Quotes

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. – Nikola Tesla

Category:
Future

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. – Logan P. Smith

Category:
Happiness

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. – Robert Fitzgerald

Category:
Imagination

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. – Walter Pater

Category:
Beauty