With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.
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.
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.
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.
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
