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Quotes About Decrepit

All of Spain is contained in DON QUIXOTE—-a decrepit society unaware the world has passed it by.
~ Adolf Hitler
Come, Mr. Mason, you know as well as I do that the American Empire is in decline, and dear Mr. Biden is old and decrepit, and has no stomach for a fight. He
~ David Archer
Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.
~ Rufus Wainwright
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
She wished Bennie were here; only Bennie could appreciate the depth of self-delusion she was witnessing. "Let me get this straight," she said. "You want to do a lot of interviews and press around the fact that you're an ailing and decrepit shadow of your former self. And then you want to do a tour—
~ Jennifer Egan
A alma dos poetas está cheia de objetos decrépitos. E é por isso que fazem poesia, para trazê-los de novo à vida. A poesia opera ressurreições.
~ Rubem Alves
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
~ William Shakespeare
Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and it also occasionally held his evil former lady love.
~ Cassandra Clare
For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
~ F. Sionil Jose
The Down Markets opened out onto it from three sides; a more decrepit collection of useless items for sale Tehol had yet to see. And the people bought in a frenzy, day after blessed day. Our civilization thrives on stupidity . And it only took a sliver of cleverness to tap that idiot vein and drink deep of the riches. Comforting, if slightly depressing. The way of most grim truths.
~ Steven Erikson
It seemed impossible that modern thought could house itself in such decrepit and superseded chambers.
~ Thomas Hardy
The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults
~ Tite Kubo
They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs.
~ Colum McCann
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!
~ John Milton