Life Quote by Marianne Faithfull

“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

Decadence is wonderful.

— Jack L. Chalker

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

— Christian Louboutin

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

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

“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

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

— Mason Cooley

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

— Patti LaBelle

“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

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

— Aristotle

“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