Cities Quote by Mikhail Bulgakov

“It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and darkness here, even…

— K.J. Wignall

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

— Helen McCloy

“It was dark and dim all day. From the sunless dawn until evening the heavy shadow had deepened, and all hearts in the City…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow of a tree, their peace untroubled by footsteps…

— Albert Camus

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be…

— Christopher Fowler

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up…

— Charles Dickens

The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.

— Ted Dekker

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was…

— Scott Westerfeld

The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores…

— Edward Gibbon

The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration…

— Ted Dekker

“He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to empty out.…

— Lev Grossman

The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet…

— Anais Nin