Decadence Quotes

I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the o...

The famous courtesan Clarimonde died recently, as the result of an orgy which lasted eight days and ...

Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a r...

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance ...

Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. I...

Endless love and voluptuous appetite pervaded this stifling nave in which settled the ardent sap of ...

Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have litt...

Inside my soul a treasure is buried.The key is mine and only mine.How right you are, you drunken mon...

The mirror's light sparks in the eyes,And horrified, my lids drawn tight,I step back to that realm o...

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometime...

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own...

If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas w...

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;We find delight in the most loathsome things;Some fu...

While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a...

Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Sym...

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposi...

(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange brig...

Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so...

I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of histori...

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in t...

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had...