Quotes About Decadence

Arby's: If I was about to be killed, I would eat it.

But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state. Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape, swindle, kill, maim, torture and destroy. Bad thing. People also pop into bed together and cosy up. Good thing. If we think fucking is a sign of moral decay then we're a little bit stupid-stupid, aren't we?

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.

Edward Carpenter looked at civilization as a kind of disease we have to pass through.48 This Decadence can be overcome. Confronting the nature of the whole is the inescapable challenge.

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

And I ate the cheesecake.

And I ordered the cheesecake.

In my eyes, refusing cake is an immoral act.

la melancolía y la ansiedad. El diagnóstico decadente de la cultura occidental

Las dos notas más peculiares son, desde mi punto de vista, el hedonismo y la permisividad, ambas enhebradas por el materialismo. Esto hace que las aspiraciones más profundas del hombre vayan siendo gradualmente materiales y se deslicen hacia una decadencia moral con precedentes muy remotos: el Imperio romano o el período comprendido entre los siglos XVII-XVIII.

Oh, señora condesa, parece que ha adivinado usted mi pensamiento! Como usted, yo he observado la corrupción de las costumbres, hija de la desenvoltura francesa; como usted, he observado el descuido de las madres, la ceguera de los padres, la malicia de las tías, la complicidad de las primas y la debilidad de las abuelas; y he dicho: «orden, rigor, cautela, reclusión, tiranía, o si no dentro de poco la sociedad se precipitará en los abismos del pecado».

Chocolates are a must have in my refrigerator.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

No day would be complete without chocolate. My favorite: Vosges Creole bar - it's dark chocolate with cocoa nibs. Holy Toledo, that thing is good.

To be kissed on the lips by your husband is the most decadent thing.

A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. She looks nice today, I'd think, but somehow it wouldn't occur to me to say it out loud. My mom talked, my sister talked. I'd been raised to listen. So, sitting on the couch by myself, not talking, felt decadent.

I realized what a decadence it was, to refuse to answer a question. No thanks, don't want to talk about that and the worst you get is someone thinks you're rude.

Apathy is just a lack of energy, which to me, is just the literal definition of decadence. So the energy gives out in a society - that is decadence.

Batman knew what it was like to trip balls without seriously losing his shit, and that savoir faire added another layer to his outlaw sexiness and alluring aura of decadence and wealth.

Even if it was against his will every time, Batman was hip to serious mind bending drugs. Batman knew what it was like to trip balls without seriously losing his shit, and that savoir faire added another layer to his outlaw sexiness and alluring aura of decadence and wealth.

You yourself fought the decadence of Gotham for years—with all your strength and resources, all your moral authority. And the only victory you could achieve was a lie.

'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.