Ascending Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Robert Silverberg

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

“But the trouble is that conscious futility is something only for the young. One cannot go on "despairing of life" in to a ripe…

— George Orwell

“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

“Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to life or…

— Jack London

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

— Aristotle

“In my opinion, the present symptoms of decadence are explained by the fact that the development of industry and machinery has made the struggle…

— Albert Einstein

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

— Mike Shinoda

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

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

— Chris Heimerdinger