When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with…

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

— William James

“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus, perhaps because…

— Tabish Khair

“After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his little village…

— Bruno Schulz

“Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it,…

— Sol Luckman

URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in…

— Ambrose Bierce

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

— Mason Cooley

In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.

— Paul Beatty

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land…

— Yasmina Khadra

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

— Aristotle

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all…

— Sam Keen

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit…

— Clive Barker

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or…

— Susan Sontag