"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied"
- Susan Sontag
About this Quote
This quote by Susan Sontag speaks to the powerlessness of death and how it can be a source of fear and dread for those who do not have a spiritual or naturalistic understanding of it. Death is an affront to our sense of control and mastery over our lives, and it is a profane secret that can not be controlled. It can only be rejected, either through a faith in an afterlife or through a denial of its inevitability. Death is a tip of our death and the supreme limitation of our power, and it can be a source of excellent stress and anxiety and distress for those who do not have a way to understand it.
This quote is written / told by Susan Sontag between January 28, 1933 and December 28, 2004. She was a famous Author from USA.
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