Priyadarshni Chugh

“Citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, are schooled to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others