Decadence Quotes

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History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

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

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

I absolutely believe that when one goes on vacation, it should be pure decadence.

Decadence is wonderful.

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

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 still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.

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

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.

Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin.

Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.