Quotes by Decrepit 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. Aubrey de Grey decrepit end-of-life disease There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. Gerrit Smith decrepit young rooms A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts. Malcolm Muggeridge decrepit individual society The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable. Nathaniel Hawthorne decrepit grey world I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. Rufus Wainwright decrepit longing reverence