Golden light Quote by Olivia Laing

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

“Cities can be lonely places, and in admitting this we see that loneliness doesn't necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence or paucity…

— Olivia Laing

“A city of squalls, foggy mornings, intervals of blue and white so immaculate the eyes ached. A city of readers, coffee drinkers, kissers on…

— Keith Miller

“A city uninhabited is different. Different from what a "normal" observer, straggling in the dark - the occasional dark - would see. It is…

— Thomas Pynchon

“The soft humidity of the evening, so pleasant to walk about in earlier, had turned to rain. The strolling tourists had melted away. One…

— Daphne du Maurier

Cities can be paradoxical places. In the mornings they buzz with commuters, in the evenings they come alive with diners and partygoers, at weekends…

— David Lammy

“Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities…

— Frederik Peeters

“At some time all cities have this feel: in London it's at five or six on a winer evening. Paris has it too, late,…

— Geoff Dyer

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

— Henry David Thoreau

“In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world…

— Jerry Pinto

There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those…

— Anne Rice

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent…

— Charles Baudelaire