Albert-camus Quote by Albert Camus

“An empty city was like an empty library or school, it made you feel as if the entire thing was built just for you…

— Adrianne Brooks

“Beyond these there is a miserable crowd, indigent, without political rights, of no weight in the city, envious, full of hatred, and condemned by…

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

“The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new…

— Henry Adams

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“A city of Dreadful Nights: "The world rolls round forever like a mill, it grinds out life and death and good and ill. It…

— James Thompson

“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as…

— Nelson Algren

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“A city has no sense, no sentiment, no soul.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The city was radiant and I felt untouchable.”

— Stephanie Danler

“Cities balanced on the edge of sustainability, always one step from starvation. When you pressed so many people together, their cultures, ideas, and stenches…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Here is the great city: here have you nothing to seek and everything to lose.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“From my own novel. Because in the City, you know there is nothing else, it is a place without roads, without real people, without…

— Ben Farmer