Chicago Quote by Nelson Algren

“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear—the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty…

— Edward Abbey

“A city which belongs to just one man is no true city”

— Sophocles

“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

“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models.…

— Cristina Martin

“So the city emerges as man’s ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of self-sufficiency he…

— Monica Sjöö

“A man must wage war on himself to defeat his weaknesses and conquer his strengths”

— Dennis Adonis III

“Here, perhaps, is the only man in the world who, were you to leave him alone and without money on the square of some…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.”

— Rod Judkins

“The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets. It belonged…

— André Alexis

“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

“A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed.”

— Albert Camus

“Man valiantly attempt to rise above the ruins in order to prove that all of their sufferings won't end in nothingness but in salvation.”

— VD