Vulgarity Lost Quote by Rebecca West

“Epochs later, the curtains grew dusty and brittle, the deep, vicious colour of a bruise. The floorboards creaked and we were civilized. We were…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the…

— Hermann Hesse

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive…

— William Carlos Williams

“But the great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.…

— Willa Cather

“As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking…

— Anonymous

“...when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what…

— Carl Sandburg

“Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I have been in several provinces of that kingdom. In some, one half of the people are fools and madmen; in some, they are…

— Voltaire

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“That world seemed to have vanished, but for a long time the image I had of my father, which I still preserve today, was…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable…

— John Keats