#who

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890? ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#art #compared #dates #fact #feel

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

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#best #lunatics #mad #most #people

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#awash #causality #disease #important #ineffectual

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #fear #feels #frighten #man

Who seeks shall find. ↗

— Sophocles

#find #seeks #shall #who

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #future #lost #neglects #past

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. ↗

— Sophocles

#any #better #friend #how #kindness

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

#bred #children #except #furnishes #gives

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men. ↗

— Sophocles

#both #brings #fares #fortune #future