Cities Quote by Samuel Johnson

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose…

— Samuel Johnson

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

— Jonathan Raban

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they…

— Gustave Flaubert

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

— Anonymous

“When they fall in love with a city it is for forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it.…

— Toni Morrison

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is…

— Charlotte Bronte

“They had left their cities, but they carried their cities with them, as a trust, on their shoulders. That's how it usually is. Even…

— Intizar Husain

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that…

— Alain de Botton

“It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. The need to attach themselves makes wandering people strike…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“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

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away…

— Jean Dubuffet