Big Cities Quotes

“Big cities comforted me: the cover, the chaos, the hollow sympathy of the architecture, the Tube lines snaking underground. London could swallow you up, in a good way. There were times when I'd been broken and being subsumed into a city had made me feel part of a whole again.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep you in a state of perpetual adolescence.”
― John Hodgman

“But she was Barbara Monroe, of Chicago, Illinois. She had attended a big-city high school, Mather. A big school in a big city was easier to fake than a small one, because anyone could be forgotten in a big school.”
― Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know: Reviewd

“What people that town produces! Nothing but dead, useless things come out of the town and can pass across the borders. Perhaps we used to be something like that ... there's no one here but people who never learned to make their fortune in town. And people who prefer misfortune out here to misfortune in town. Out here, it has the advantage that it can't be confused with fortune. Here no one needs to deceive himself. Here no one needs to forget.”
― Wolfgang Hilbig, The Tidings of the Trees

“All major cities in the world look best at night because night skilfully hides their ugly side!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at one and the same time.”
― Louis Yako

“While you are running from one place to another in the big city, you feel that your life is running away from you, because in a sense, life is time!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What remains of the world at the end?” She asked him.
“The noise of machines, newspapers, bombs, the craziness in the big cities, all of this will be forgotten tomorrow. And then, what remains? What remains, my dear, will never be the world, but only the gods.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“As for those who come to the big cities and change, fanciful cities just stimulate their inner desires.”
― Jordan Hoechlin