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Degradation |
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 | Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 15 likes |
 | Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 12 likes |
 | The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 10 likes |
 | Every harlot was a virgin once. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 9 likes |
 | Life is a horizontal fall. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 8 likes |
 | In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 5 likes |
 | You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
 | As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 5 likes |
 | What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 4 likes |
 | When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. — Mae West, 1893-1980, American actress 4 likes |
 | Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 3 likes |
 | We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | We don’t grow older, we grow riper. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
 | Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 3 likes |
 | The most depraved type of human being ... the man without a purpose. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Whoever degrades another degrades me. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 3 likes |
 | It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 3 likes |
 | Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and at times—and this is the worst of all—before we have new ones. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
 | Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes |
 | Politics, just like the rainforest, is fed by its own decomposition. — Paul Carvel, 1964-, Belgian author of maxims 3 likes |
 | The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 2 likes |
 | Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 2 likes |
| The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
| After a certain age, the two arms of a chair attract you more than the two arms of a woman. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 1 likes |
 | A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 1 likes |
 | Love had turned into “love affair” with a beginning and an end. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
| Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
 | People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
| The worst old age is that of the mind. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
 | I don't know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 1 likes |
| Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 1 likes |
| You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | A beautiful woman dies twice. — Pierre Claude Boiste, 1765-1824, French lexicographer 1 likes |
 | On Earth, the vast majority of people live in physical misery; the rest too often live in mental misery. — André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist 1 likes |
 | I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 1 likes |
 | You have no ideas any more. You have only needs. You have finally become an adult. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 1 likes |
| When nature falls into decline, so does human nature. — Paul Carvel, 1964-, Belgian author of maxims 1 likes |
| The increasing disintegration of the person can be measured by comparing the expression “amorous adventure,” which was in style in the 18th century, with the expression “sexual experience,” which is used in the 20th century. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | O, the times! O, the morals! O tempora! Ο mores! — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 39 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there is no ship for you, there is no road. As you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner, you’ve destroyed it everywhere else in the world. — Constantine Kavafy, 1868-1933, Greek poet ‐ The city 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | And you, old man, we are told you prospered once. Και σε γέρον το πριν μεν ακούομεν όλβιον είναι. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad XXIV (Achilles to Priam) 8 likes |
 | All things are in the process of changing; and you yourself are in continuous mutation and in continuous wear and the whole universe too. Πάντα εν μεταβολήι· και αυτός συ εν διηνεκεί αλλοιώσει και κατά τι φθορά, και ο κόσμος δε όλος. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations IX, 19 4 likes |
 | And now I am the miserable sport of the wind! Νυν δ’ αιθέριον κίνυγμ’ ο τάλας. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Prometheus Bound 3 likes |
 | It’s bad to be poor. My noble bloodline brought me no food. Κακόν το μη έχειν. Το γένος ουκ έβοσκέ με. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Phoenician women 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | - You're not the man I knew ten years ago. - It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage. — from the film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 4 likes |
