| 1. | At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 2. | 'I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 3. | Because there is a decadent art about, one need not make a hero of the pavement artist. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 4. | He recognised that though Buddhism is undoubtedly a religion for decadents, its decadent values emanate from the higher and not, as in Christianity, from the lower grades of society. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |