Decadence Quote by Barbey D'Aurevilly Download Open image ““For a decadent like Baudelaire the only possible ends are suicide or the foot of the cross”” — Barbey D'Aurevilly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decadence Decadents Suicide
“… and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality” Charles Baudelaire” — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Even then, if the cliff, chosen and cherished from long ago, had not been so picturesque, if it had been merely a flat, prosaic… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are many pointless deaths, but there can never be a needless suicide.” — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
“There is something noble as well as terrible about suicide. The downfall of many men is not dangerous, for they fall like children, too… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“No matter how heavy and gruesome the cross you have to carry in your life, surrender to the suffering and RISE.” — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
“Surely we should all perish through sheer inanity, or die desperately by suicide if no mystery remained in the world.” — J. D. Beresford Copy Share Image
“Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Of all the people in the world who have miserable lives - and, as I'm sure you know, there are quite a few -… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The man who to untimely death is doomed Vainly would hedge him in from the assault of harm; He bears the seed of ruin… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“* Jag önskar så att uttrycka mig klart och bli förstådd i detta att jag ska riskera något löjligt. Jag ska sätta en not… — Barbey D'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the… — Asti Hustvedt 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, champagne and… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes,… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow 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 sensuous. And… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image