Beginnings Quote by Mohsin Hamid

“but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and…

— Mohsin Hamid

“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep - it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out…

— Michael Cunningham

“If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes.”

— Sherman Alexie

“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

“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

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and…

— Anonymous

“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

“There is an endless chain of cities, a circle without beginning or end, over which there breaks unrelentingly a shifting wave of laws. There…

— Michal Ajvaz

“The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to born. When the forms exhaust their…

— Italo Calvino

“You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there is no ship for you, there is no road. As…

— C.P. Cavafy

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

— Hanna Abi Akl

“It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening…

— Mohsin Hamid