Skyscraper Quotes

“Skies are crying,
I am watching,
Catching teardrops in my hands.
Only silence, as it's ending,
Like we never had a chance.
Do you have to make me feel
Like there's nothing left of me?”
― Demi Lovato

“Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper...”
― Demi Lovato

“As the smoke clears,
I awaken,
And untangle you from me.
Would it make you feel better
To watch me, while I bleed?
All my windows still are broken,
But I'm standing on my feet.”
― Demi Lovato

“this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

“Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above each other. All the events of the past few months made sense if one realised that these brilliant and exotic creatures had learned to open the doors.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

“the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.”
― J.G. Ballard

“Are you okay?”
“Yeah.”
“Good,” she said, “because if you fall off a skyscraper, I’ll be so mad at you.”
― Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass

“...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines...”
― Jack Kerouac, Book of Sketches

“A man in the skyscraper needs to feed a pigeon from his window to remember what great thing missing in his life: The touch of nature!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I looked up at the ivory towers above us all. Nowhere else equals the feral design of this city. Tall skyscrapers that act as gorges hollowing out between flat cement dancing into narrow alleyways like bottomless pits. Building walls rusted the color of blood. Sometimes when you look down the horizon from afar the city looks wider than it is, like a thin field of magical lights gleaming with the hopes of children and idealists; a light on at midnight in one of the penthouses or the changing hues of the Empire State Building. Most of the time though, the city is covered with a layer of honking cars and greed, sirens and the war cry of solicitors, all full of brambles and impenetrable conscience; garbage, steaming manholes, and heat waves twirling smog and pollution through your lungs like mirages as you walk breathlessly through a boiling desert.”
― Bruce Crown, How Dim the Promised Land

“A skyscraper built within your own mind may never crumble.”
― Kazuki Nakashima, Kill la Kill 01

“The world is a skyscraper! Don't always stay on the same floor! Go upstairs, go downstairs; visit the lives of other tenants! Visit eagles; visit mushrooms!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The skyscraper symbolizes escape from the world; villa with garden symbolizes embracing the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It's skyscraper words that lift obscure words out of the dictionary and plant them firmly in the sky.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Hour by hour the caissons reach down to the rock of the earth and hold the building to a turning planet.”
― Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems

“The clouds and the shafts of skyscrapers against them were turning brown, like an old painting in oil, the color of a fading masterpiece. Long streaks of grime ran from under the pinnacles down the slender, soot-eaten walls. High on the side of a tower there was a crack in the shape of a motionless lightning, the length of ten stories. A jagged object cut the sky above the roofs; it was half a spire, still holding the glow of the sunset; the gold leaf had long since peeled off the other half. The glow was red and still, like the reflection of a fire: not an active fire, but a dying one which it is too late to stop.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged