Quotes About Decrepit

#1. Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there. Shouldn't the place be crimson with blood and black with shame?

Sarah Sundin

#2. If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!

Margaret Weis

#4. Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

P.D. Ouspensky

#5. The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.

Stefan Molyneux

#6. When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction ...

Milton Friedman

#7. The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

Aubrey De Grey

#8. And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Francis Quarles

#9. Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

Michelle Alexander

#10. If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

Daniel Cudmore

#11. They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs.

Colum McCann

#12. Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and it also occasionally held his evil former lady love.

Cassandra Clare

#13. 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.

Rufus Wainwright

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

Gerald Griffin

#15. Now-a-days lower Broadway is blocked with traffic at this hour and everyone walks; even the decrepit John Jacob Astor can be seen crawling along the street like some ancient snail, his viscous track the allure of money. Instead

Gore Vidal

#16. How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.

Sathya Sai Baba

#17. Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

Neal Stephenson

#18. The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#19. The only thing worse than living inside an alligator had to be living inside a decrepit one.

Robert Dunbar

#20. During my life, I've just wondered why I have to learn from school, not from society. And now, the answer is : the decrepit education.

Anymous Writer

#21. The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

David Byrne

#22. I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men.

Kim Harrison

#23. Sweetheart, I'll be a Marine 'til they bury my cold, dead, decrepit ass in the ground a good fifty or sixty years from now.

Dee Tenorio

#24. What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

William Butler Yeats

#25. Funny how being decrepit, diseased and sentenced to death gave you so much power. She couldn't go to Morocco nor even drive herself into town. She could hardly move off the couch. But she could say whatever she wanted: she had bitch licence.

Fiona McGregor

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

Helen Thomas

#27. If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.

George Eliot

#28. I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

Woody Allen

#29. Stolen hours in a decrepit barn with Isaac Hale didn't count; those times were hungry and empty and sometimes cruel, but never lovely.

Sarah J. Maas

#30. As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

William Shakespeare

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

F. Sionil Jose

#32. You're not simply getting old, you're getting decrepit.... You

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#33. The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit wreck.

Nikolai Gogol

#34. To return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Gerrit Smith

#36. I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Jerome K. Jerome

#37. This has been the left's technique. The technique is to portray a political enemy of the left as this outrageous caveman or whatever decrepit form of humanity that you can describe, and then assume that everybody else agrees, and then cover the story as though everybody agrees.

Rush Limbaugh

#38. Nothing so readily renews the decrepit soul, and enables it to approach the Lord, as fear of God, attentiveness, constant meditation on the words of Scripture, the arming of oneself with prayer, and spiritual progress through the keeping of vigils.

Brock Bingaman

#39. could have laugh'd myself to scorn, to find In that decrepit Man so firm a mind.

William Wordsworth

#40. It was a decrepit studio apartment in Hollywood, with a Murphy bed that came out of the wall.

Anonymous

#41. The men, the women, the children; the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty - all equal before sleep, death's brother.

Joseph Conrad

#42. 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.

George Eliot

#43. I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

Lulu

#44. A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#45. The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults

Tite Kubo

#46. If thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?" "Very valuable in the antique market." Dr.

Marissa Meyer

#47. I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind ...

W.G. Sebald

#48. The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

Pankaj Mishra

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

Graham Chapman

#50. I don't intend to kind of like wind down and get decrepit. I have a challenge to keep myself going. To eat right. To exercise.

James, Son Of Zebedee

#51. 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.

Suzanne Somers

#52. This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit,
between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is of positive benefit, for it keeps the perennial moral values alive

Fazlur Rahman

#53. I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

Rufus Wainwright

#54. The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

Charles Fort