Decadent

Famous quotes containing the word decadent:

“Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)

“A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

“You don’t want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is all purely secondary—and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)