Rodman Philbrick

I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I could see out the window, and how I felt about things. Peel away my decrepit middle-aged exterior, and an important part of me is still twelve years old. It helps me when I sit down to write stories for kids.

American Writer

Limahl

Part of my job is to be looked at and I do think we live in a world where you are judged on your looks. If you look at someone you previously liked and they look old and decrepit, I don't think it's that pleasant.

English Musician

Rufus Wainwright

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

Canadian Musician

George Eliot

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

British Author

F. Sionil Jose

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.

Filipino Writer

Suzanne Somers

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

American Actress

Gerald Griffin

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

American Author

Graham Chapman

Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.

British Comedian

Gerrit Smith

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

American Politician

Helen Thomas

I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.

American Journalist

Use 'decrepit' to describe something extremely old and near collapse or not working well.

Age and Condition

'Decrepit' can imply frail health due to advanced age, without being disrespectful.

Health Context

Although it can describe people, use it carefully as it can sound derogatory or insensitive.

Not for People

 when it has state-of-the-art technology and gleaming floors, not overcrowded cells and decrepit facilities, it's harder to believe that torture happens there. But it's important to entertain the idea that, sometimes, this too is what torture looks like. As a civil rights lawyer,

What happens to people...

 You're standing at this abandoned mine. You can only see maybe two or three meters in before it's entirely black. But in the kind of haze, you can see the kind of decrepit, old bits