Decadence Quote by E.M. Forster

“Unlike the God whose name begins with a capital letter, our gods are not all-powerful, Louis. Can you imagine that? Any one of them…

— Daniel Quinn

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By…

— Steve Perry

“And Englishmen like posing as gods.”

— E.M. Forster

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

— Joseph Campbell

“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

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

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

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

— Rita Mae Brown

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment…

— Rufus Wainwright

“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

“(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