Decadence Quotes
71 Decadence quotes by 65 unique authors
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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the…
— Jodi Picoult
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I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with…
— Jodi Picoult
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The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with…
— Rob Sheffield
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Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried…
— Francine Rivers
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Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
— Fernando Pessoa
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
— Thomas Pynchon
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think Illium can take care of himself.” “Not if he keeps flirting with you.” A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and sunshine,…
— Nalini Singh
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The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the…
— Mark Leibovich
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The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism.…
— Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
— John O'Hara
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Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy.
— Martin Dansky
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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. They may die…
— Amun Djoleto
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First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist,…
— Milos Forman
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History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence
— Camille Paglia
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Your mind is sickly from Alzheimer's disease and decadence and debauchery killed your memories.
— Megadeth
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Give me your tired, give me your sick, give me your indulgence and decadence. He lied, they died, keep the peasants terrified
— Unknown Author
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Medicated, drama queen, picture perfect, numb belligerence. Narcissistic, drama queen, craving fame and all its decadence.
— A Perfect Circle
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Makin moves, settin precedence. Enterin your residence, the whole scene is decadence.
— Q-tip
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Its a celebration of black excellence. Black tie, black Maybachs. Black excellence, opulence, decadence. Tuxes next to the president.
— Jay-Z
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This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively, but, if sweetness can win and it can then Ill be…
— Ramandeep Singh
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