Decadence Quote by Robert Silverberg

“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

“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

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

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“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 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

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

— Aristotle

The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that…

— Henry Fairlie

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or…

— Ansel Adams