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In this age of decadence that we live in, people's minds are twisted and only words are loved but not preactial deeds.
— Renee Ahdieh
How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.
— Wilfrid Sheed
American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.
— Albert Jay Nock
the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.
— John Jackson Miller
For a decadent like Baudelaire the only possible ends are suicide or the foot of the cross
— Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
— Terence McKenna
Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.
— Will Durant
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
— Oscar Wilde
Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
let myself luxuriate in the decadence of being with Jamison.
— Olivia Chase
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
— Robert Silverberg
I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.
— Jennifer Shahade
Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.
— Siddharth Katragadda
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
— Jesse Metcalfe
The decadent artist markets other people's pain
— Jennifer Birkett
Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.
— Mark Lawrence
Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess.
— Iain M. Banks
I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
to have to combat one's instincts - that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
This kind of detail impressed me. It suggested a whole life of marvelous, elaborate decadence that attracted me like a magnet.
— Sylvia Plath
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
— Remy De Gourmont
Apathy is just lack of energy, which to me, is just the literal definition of decadence.
— Anonymous
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
— Mae West
The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.
— Juan Goytisolo
To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
— Thomas Pynchon
Poverty is bad,but so is decadence.
Tyranny is bad,
but so is chaos.
Injustice is bad,
but so is godlessness. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.
— Siddharth Katragadda
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
— Christopher Hampton
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
— J.G. Ballard
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
— Will Durant
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
— Raymond Chandler
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
— Paul Verlaine
The corruption of morals is a consequence of decadence (weakness of the will, need for strong stimuli).
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Decadence is wonderful.
— Jack L. Chalker
Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence - call it what you will - is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.
— Matthew Flinders
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
— John O'Hara
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
— David Sarnoff
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
— Mae West
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
— Georges Braque
Give people the power of the gods, and they'll eventually run down like wind-up toys for lack of reasons to go on.
— Karl Schroeder
I think God hands over to His apprentices the moulding of vessels that don't interest Him.("The Accursed Cordonnier") — Bernard Capes
By living a life "against nature," the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.
— Asti Hustvedt
You will find very exquisite flowers sometime even on a dust-heap, as well as where humanity grows thickest and rankest.
— Hume Nisbet
The entire empire has sunk into a quagmire of extravagance from which they cannot extricate themselves.
— Liu Cixin
Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
— Fernando Pessoa
You shut up. I'm older and I'm not going to stay at your palace of decadence and deviance. Brody to Erin. — Lauren Dane
I am an idea in an era that has no more of them.
— Jean Lorrain
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
— Cyril Connolly
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
— Rita Mae Brown
We revel in the laxness of the path we take.
— Charles Baudelaire
I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder
— Mingmei Yip
Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.
— Compton Mackenzie
Will you have me, though I come to you corrupt? My armor tarnished with sin and decadence.
— Nicole Jordan
