Cities Quote by Italo Calvino

“the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there;…

— Italo Calvino

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until…

— V S Naipaul

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until…

— V. S. Naipaul

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

“The whole city was a compass. How could anyone ever have gotten so hopelessly lost here?”

— James Sallis

“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

“he seemed to be trying to find his way somewhere, but had forgotten where.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He looked around the clearing in recognition that he was lost but didn’t mind because he knew he had never been found.”

— Jim Harrison

“There was too much of a sameness about the evening’s delights. He had been the same route too many times. He’d been there before,…

— Jim Thompson

“That experience, so many years ago, taught him that some areas are less travelled for a reason. Sometimes, the secrets of the dark woods…

— Cindy Parmiter

“Other people were in one world; he was in a second. And the distance between their worlds caused other concern and perplexity made them…

— Russell Banks

“And Marco's answer was: 'Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had…

— Italo Calvino