There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
NovalisElaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J.G. BallardTag: death decadence burial funerals
Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.
Remy de GourmontThe pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
Remy de GourmontTag: silence decadence scoundrel
They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyTag: life death atheism decadence dissolution
No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.
RachildeTag: passion lust decadence decadent sadism disgust
Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world. ... the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity. In decadent literature, sickness is preferable to health, not only because sickness was regarded as more interesting, but because sickness was construed as subversive, as a threat to the very fabric of society. By embracing the marginal, the unhealthy and the deviant, the decadents attacked bourgeois life, which they perceived as the chief enemy of art.
Asti HustvedtTag: art decadence symbolism sickness subversive bourgeois decadent deviant literature-decay marginal perversity
By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.
Asti HustvedtTag: decadence hero decadent deviant pervert
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening climacteric of thoughts and emotions.
Joris-Karl HuysmansTag: decadence sickness decadent baudelaire
The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure.
Asti HustvedtTag: literature language decadence decadent baroque
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