Cities Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same…

— Iain Sinclair

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

— Tahir Shah

And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City

— Zbigniew Herbert

“Into no other city does the sight of the country enter so far; if you do not meet a butterfly, you shall certainly catch…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what…

— Italo Calvino

“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud…

— Italo Calvino

“There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the…

— Tahir Shah

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that…

— David Sedaris

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

— Herb Caen

“They had left their cities, but they carried their cities with them, as a trust, on their shoulders. That's how it usually is. Even…

— Intizar Husain

“What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.”

— Victor Hugo

“it is geography—especially in the displaced form of departures, arrivals, farewells, exile, nostalgia, homesickness, belonging, and travel itself—that is at the core of my…

— Edward Said