Decadence Quote by George Orwell

“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

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such…

— Christopher Gadsden

“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

“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

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but…

— Francis Bacon

“The young have aspirations that never comes to pass,the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious…

— Saki

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that…

— S. Jay Olshansky

“Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit, he is…

— Christopher Isherwood

“There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will look out for the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest of life…

— E.M. Delafield

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin