Cairo Quote by Italo Calvino

“For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and the solitary…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting…

— Robert Walser

“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself…

— Salman Rushdie

“The city of God is filled with glorious things.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our…

— Mohsin Hamid

“And sitting there against the wall, listening to Billy's inhalations and exhalations, and watching the light in the glass and through the glass, Cleve…

— Clive Barker

“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction…

— Charles Dickens

“In the inner city, much was made of early milestones. Later ones might never come. —”

— Matthew Desmond

“show me the city that does not mourn its fallen whose pillars embrace white coffins and freeze time and distort space”

— Hanna Abi Akl

“that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.”

— Robert Hughes

“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

“In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be…

— Joseph Brodsky