Zürich Quotes

“Yes, you do hate Switzerland. And," doctor Messerli paused for effect, "you love it. You love it and you hate it. What you don't feel is apathy. You're not indifferent. You're ambivalent."
Anna had thought about this before, when nights came during which she could do nothing but wander Dietlikon's sleeping streets or hike the hill behind her house to sit upon the bench where most often she went to weep. She'd considered her ambivalence many, many times, and in the end, she's diagnosed herself with a disease that she'd also invented. Switzerland syndrome. Like Stockholm syndrome. But instead of my captors, I'm attached to the room in which I'm held captive. It's the prison I'm bound to, not the warden.

Anna was absolutely right. It was the landscape. it was the geography. The fields, the streams, the lakes, the forests. And the mountains. On exceptionally clear days when the weather was right, if you walked south on Dietlikon's Bahnhofstrasse you could see the crisp outlines of snow-capped Alps against a blazing blue horizon eighty kilometers away. On these certain days it was something in the magic of the atmosphere that made them tangible and moved them close. The mutability of those particular mountains reminded Anna of herself. And it wasn't simply the natural landscape that she attached herself to emotionally. It was the cobblestone roads of Zürich's old town and the spires of this church and the towers of that one. And the trains, the trains, the goddamn trains. She could take the train anywhere she wanted to go.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum

“It is always easy to create an ordinary city; what is difficult is to create an extraordinary one, peaceful and restful one, smart and tidy, artful and cultivated one, in short, a livable one! And Zurich is such a city!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

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― David Honegger

“Anna returned her gaze to the bankers' wives, who huddled into the company of one another. The women were young. Their husbands wore the jewellery of their beauty like elegant wristwatches.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau

“Zurück in Zürich, einer Welt, in der die komplizierte Maschinerie der globalen Finanzwelt summt, wo Deals geschlossen werden und Vermögen mit dem Auf und Ab der internationalen Märkte steigen und fallen.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Tage in Peru (Peruanische Dualität)

“Is Zürich actually a city or a town?
What is a city? What is a town? I ask back.
A type of human settlement? Of a certain size.
What is a human settlement?
Seriously?
Yeah… seriously… maybe it’s easiest to define things first before talking about them.”
― Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

“Here in Zürich, at Paradeplatz, the heartbeat of global capital hums in these buildings, where the relentless pursuit of profit seems never-ending.”
― Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

“In this town numbers become the currency of conversation, while conversation becomes negotiation and negotiation becomes transaction.”
― Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering