Quotes About Decrepitude

A Ned se le antojó una visión triste: una meretriz envejecida esforzándose al máximo por sacar partido a sus decrépitos encantos con tal de retener el afecto de un sacerdote viejo, corrupto y barrigudo. Algunas veces, Ned tenía la sensación de vivir en un mundo en descomposición.

Isto está tudo decadente: já nem decadentes há.

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

Is this what makes people old, then? Not age, or decrepitude, but grief?

the ruin insufficiently ruined

Barceló signaled to a waiter of such remarkable decrepitude that he looked as if he should be declared a national landmark.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness.

In many ways, Trump is both a boon and a bane to Republicans. His insanity and moral decrepitude keep the country focused on things other than the horrible public policies the GOP is attempting to ram through. But because he has no loyalty to anything other than himself, he's much more useful to them as a shiny object than as an ally.

Abandoned buildings are like abandoned people. They grow bitter and start to keep bad company.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.