Decrepit Quotes

“The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Mapidéré was but one man-and indeed, judging by rumors of his decrepit state near death, a weak, sickly man-but his creation, the empire, had taken on a life of its own. Killing the emperor would not have been enough. We have to kill the empire.”

“To tell you the truth, I used to consider it a disgrace to be found ignorant by other people. But now, I find that I am not ashamed of knowing less than others, and I'm less inclined to force myself to read books. In short, I have grown old and decrepit.”