To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander… — M.P. Shiel Copy Share Image
Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
I think Illium can take care of himself.” “Not if he keeps flirting with you.” A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat,… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics,… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy… — Francis Amery Copy Share Image
“The neurotic youth of to-day renews no ante-existent type. You will look in vain for a face like Amos's amongst the busts… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He saw a chamber, broad and low, designed, in its every rich stain of picture and slumberous hanging, to appeal to the… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil,… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
“This Sarah Perez had the most beautiful eyes in the world, those green eyes spangled with gold that you love so much:… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“The other evening, in that cafe-cabaret in the Rue de la Fontaine, where I had run aground with Tramsel and Jocard, who… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
“This,' said the stranger softly, as if to himself, 'is the woeful proof, indeed, of decadence. Man waives his prerogative of lordship… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too… — James Packer Copy Share Image
It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Everybody knows about Las Vegas. It's a state of mind. Some people want to come with their kids and have a great… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I want my children to be bold,free,self-reliant and capable of changing the phase of that portion of the earth where they live.… — Amun Djoleto Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building -… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
“Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their… — Josephin Peladan Copy Share Image
I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
![“Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and in Venice, it's very elegant, and respectful...It's decadence. It's such a fun way to formalize a movie that is for us a down-and-dirty, gritty movie. And to see…” quote by David Gordon Green](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/402/david-gordon-green-18404_bud_sundance-festival-is-all-your-hollywood_1256634.jpg)
![“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power too long. Baleyworld would sink into conversation and decay - as your world has done.” quote by Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b92/isaac-asimov-309_complacency_i-wouldn-t-want-the-people-of-baleyworld_1779163.jpg)
