Beautiful Quote by Yves Saint Laurent

Decadence is wonderful.

— Jack L. Chalker

“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

“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the…

— Asti Hustvedt

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death; yet there are always new countries to see, new books to read (and, I…

— Edith Wharton

“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the…

— Asti Hustvedt

“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that…

— Jean Lorrain

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

I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.”

— Bauvard

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

— Aristotle

“Decadence begins with the loss of restraint.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison