Quotes Tagged With :decadence

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

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

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

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

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

The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order....

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

The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander....

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

The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they....