Paul Guilfoyle

The thing that attracted me to 'CSI' is that these guys are always professional, but underneath, it's teeming with a heavy shadow. Maybe even some decadence and some weirdness with certain characters! And that always intrigued me as an actor.

American Actor

Theodore Zeldin

It's easy to say, 'I'm anti-capitalist,' or, 'I'm anti-Western decadence,' without having to be challenged about what that actually means, or how you might go about reshaping society to make it better.

English Philosopher

Ernest Hemingway

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

American Novelist

Benito Mussolini

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

Italian Politician

Talib Kweli

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

American Musician

Raymond Chandler

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

American Writer

Stephen Hough

The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence.

British Composer

Jesse Metcalfe

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

Paul Verlaine

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

French Poet

Jack L. Chalker

American Author

Decadence often suggests that indulgence has led to a loss of traditional values or discipline.

Lack of Restraint

'Decadence' typically implies a judgment or disapproval of excessive behaviors.

Negative Connotation

Decadence can be used to highlight the extravagant and often unnecessary nature of something.

Luxury and Excess

Use decadence to describe experiences that are especially rich or overwhelming to the senses.

Sensory Overload

'Decadence' in history characterizes a period where a culture or civilization is in decline.

Historical Decline

Decadence in societies might not be immediately evident; it often refers to gradual moral decline.

Not Always Obvious

'Decadence' often signifies a bold, unusual, or controversial style in artistic works.

Artistic Expression

When related to art, decadence can carry a sense of pushing boundaries or challenging norms.

Provocative Art

 and live in this world of pain?" I mistook happiness for a lot of other things, like numbness or decadence or selfishness. And what happened through the course of the "Vagina Monologues" and this journey is, I think I have come to understand a little bit more about happiness.

Finding happiness in...

 the name Pompeii will forever be linked with two things disaster and decadence this city has been portrayed time and