Quotes About Decadence

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

After a pay per view, I know there is TV the next day. But after Raw, I like to eat bad. I can have some pizza, French fries, a burger, live it up, a glass of wine - red, of course.

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

Let them eat cake.

In his writing about communism's insidiousness, Mi?osz referenced a 1932 novel, Insatiability. In it, Polish writer Stanis?aw Witkiewicz wrote of a near-future dystopia in which the people were culturally exhausted and had fallen into decadence. A Mongol army from the East threatened to overrun them.

The world of the bored and especially the world of the frightened—the world of decadence—needs an ersatz type of spiritual adventure for the titillation of its inner life; and even more than that, it needs 'spiritual revolutions' in order to avoid real ones and to sidetrack demands for social change.

At the moment we have unemployment, of course, and a shortage of orders, and tight credit, but those are only necessary phases of readjustment. Sometimes I wonder whether the Roman patricians didn't secretly long for the barbarians... And too, there are always those who mistake their own dilapidated condition for the decadence of a civilization.

We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend

There was nothing like double chocolate chip to solve the sexual problems of women everywhere.

Remind me to show you something on "Decadence" from Havelock Ellis' Introduction to [J. K. Huysmans']Against the Grain. You will like it.

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Life without chocolate is just an existence

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

I just want to eat about a hundred million oysters and two tons of caviar and go swimming naked in champagne…

I had a slab of German chocolate cake the size of a child's tombstone. Ralph

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

I like excess. And giant M&M's.

I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.

Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.

The corruption of morals is a consequence of decadence (weakness of the will, need for strong stimuli).

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

Life itself appears to me as an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power: whenever the will to power fails there is disaster. My contention is that all the highest values of humanity have been emptied of this will—that the values of décadence, of nihilism, now prevail under the holiest names. 7. Christianity is called the religion of pity.—Pity stands in