Bases Quote by Fernando Pessoa

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Decadence is an elusive concept, resistant to concise definition. In the broadest sense one might explain it as a delight in or preoccupation with…

— David J. Bell

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

— Robert Silverberg

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they…

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I…

— Marianne Faithfull

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and…

— John Bagot Glubb

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

— George Sand

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

— Susan Griffin

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

— Robert Browning