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“Over all was that air of abandonment and decay which seems nowhere so fit and significant as in a village of the forgotten dead.”

Decrepit Cemeteries Ambrose Bierce The Death Of Halpin Frayser

Book:The Death of Halpin Frayser

Source: The Death of Halpin Frayser

“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.”

Ifs Men Looks Made Past Young Audience Ugly Made It Vampire Young Man Old Man Decrepit

Author:Daniel Cudmore

“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!”

Age Loss Enemy Sight Blind Complaining Chains Thee Blindness Dungeons Decrepit Beggary

Author:John Milton

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

Age Childhood Stage One Day Glory Weary Manhood Pilgrimage Decrepit

Book:Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introd. by Reginalde Wolfe

Source: Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introd. by Reginalde Wolfe

“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?.”

Children Sick Blind Cures Tolerate Blindness Consolation Inconvenience Decrepit

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.”

Law Order Found Wealth Revolution Birth Destruction Chaos Alternatives Merit Anarchy Regimes Monarchy Feudalism Decrepit

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“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.”

Ifs Years I Can States Enough Humility Becoming Ideals Saint Meekness Old Year Decrepit

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.”

World Grey Decrepit

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.”

“The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.”

“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.”

Want Past Next Left Old Lady Beyonce Decrepit

Author:Lulu

“Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door of death - but has not yet fallen. It is a world of contradictions: a time of harvest and plenty but also of cold and hardship. Here we dwell in the midst of life, but we know most keenly that all things must pass away and shrivel. Autumn turns the world from one thing into another. The year is seasoned and wise but not yet decrepit or senile.”

Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“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.”

Ends States Whole Periods Disease Aim Disabled Extending End Of Life Frailty Decrepit

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“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.”

May Sometimes Truth Certain Unreliable Decrepit

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“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.”

Loses Rooms Groups Advantage Aging Faculty Peers Passing Away Porridge Decrepit Peer Group

Author:Woody Allen

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

Longing Extremes Reverence Decrepit

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“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.”

Kind Challenges Wind Exercise Down And Decrepit

Author:James, son of Zebedee

“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.”

Source: War and Other Essays

“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.”

Thinking Want Kind America Defeat Rebirth Decrepit

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality is that, while physical coordination of monuments is easier than it's ever been, property boundaries often need to be determined based on evidence and plans that are old, decrepit, and done with different technology and expectations than we have today.”

“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.”

Has Beens Stories Form Political Humanity Left Enemy Agree Assuming Technique Outrageous Decrepit Political Enemies

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I still think have this deep desire for our Himalayan Trust - that we raise the necessary funds, that we do all the things that the Sherpas want us to do, and I would like to see us working together with them on these projects. Even though I'm old and decrepit I still have this strong feeling that I would like to carry these things out if it were still possible.”

Ifs Thinking Want Stills Feelings Together Desire Strong Projects Raises Working Together Fund Want U Strong Feeling Decrepit Deep Desire Sherpas

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new, high tech prisons and then relegated to a permanent undercaste - stigmatized as undeserving of any moral care or concern.”

States Care School Poor United Moral United States Color Mass Concern Prison Folks Brands Permanent Brand New Incarceration Mass Incarceration Undeserving Decrepit

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!”

Turns Water Winter Ice Decrepit

Book:Dragonlance Chronicles

Source: Dragonlance Chronicles

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

Men Reading Rooms Healthy Wrecks Decrepit Reading Room

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“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.”

Whole Young Turns Poor Rich One Day Voting Neighborhood Joints Rich Poor Decrepit

Author:David Byrne

“...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.”

Children Earth Mother Fall Speak Fear Sleep Return Horror Soil Native Frightened Yearning Bosoms Mother Earth Withered Decrepit

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you love and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Heart Doe Hands Faces Grows Gentleman Mask Splendid Wrinkles Gallant Decrepit

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the sky catches up with my mood. The pattern is set. This is, no doubt, the end.”

Ifs Knows Feels Ends Shows Age Night Waiting Doubt Sky Ancient Size Patterns Tiny Mood No Doubt Every Night Shells Handful Levers Replay Decrepit Life Size

Author:Joe Dunthorne

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

Men Way Feels Years Sports Development Thirty Old Man Software Thirty Years Software Development Decrepit Professional Sports Thirty Years Old

Book:Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

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

Knows Men Two Important Loss Know How Inches Decrepit

Author:Kim Harrison

“The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults”

Facts Seems Young Perfect Adults Immature Unforgivable Decrepit

Author:Tite Kubo

“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.”

Ifs Helping Evil Memories Former Hotel Bad Memories Decrepit Lady Love

Book:The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.”

Ifs Want Should Together Wish Inspirational Life Increase Mental Health Patient Architect Load Therapists Search For Meaning Arches Mans Search For Meaning Decrepit

Author:Viktor E. Frankl

“Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.”

Ifs Stills Would Be Age Christian Study Greater Progress Talent Depth Scripture Treasure Old Age Bored Leisure Discovering Attempting Zeal Boyhood Decrepit

Author:Richard Baxter

“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.”

Children Made Father Youth Comfort Fortune Delight Deeds Active Spite Lame Decrepit

Author:William Shakespeare

“An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.”

Life Persons Opportunity Challenges Wonderful Inspire Development Areas Towns Entrepreneur Metals Provoking Sculpture Housing Scrap Enterprising Decrepit Scrap Metal

Author:Jim Rohn

“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.”

Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.”

Source: The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed

“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.”

Heart Has Beens Eye Age Imagination Impossible Dog Ears Passionate Excited Expected Tied Tails Absurdity Caricatures Decrepit Troubled Heart

Book:COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

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

Wells Young Rooms Vigorous Decrepit

Author:Gerrit Smith

“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.”

Mind States Felt My Own Building Broken Wall Window Iron State Of Mind Magnificent Revealing Coarse Gutters Crumbling Masonry Plasters Decrepit Rainwater

Author:W. G. Sebald

“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.”

Years Age School Cities Prison Criminals Brands Brand New Offenders Inner City Decrepit Inner City Schools

Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“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.”

“The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!”

“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.”

Ifs Want Together Increase Architecture Architect Load Arches Decrepit

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.”

Individual Society Decrepit

Book:The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge

Source: The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge