Cities Quote by Walter Benjamin

“Now I will walk, as if I had an end in view, across the room, to the balcony under the awning. I see the…

— Virginia Woolf

“I have long been seduced by the idea of losing myself, persuaded by the thought that there was something poetic in this dissipation. I…

— Federico Castigliano

“I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy heedless of the innumerable forms of beauty that crowded my way: these might cross my…

— George MacDonald

“Most everyone lived twice in those days. They echoed their own steps. They took one step in the real world and one in their…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…

— Sheridan Hay

“On the surface, there was always an impeccably realistic world, but underneath, behind the backdrop's cracked canvas, lurked something different, something mysterious or abstract.”

— Milan Kundera

“Yet here apparently on this stifling summer afternoon was the eye of Mr. Flay at the outer keyhole of the Hall of the Bright…

— Mervyn Peake

“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

“The Meadow... Only one of them succeeded in making a life here... He weathered. Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived a life…

— James Galvin

“Because everyone's seeking the same thing: an imaginary place, their own castle in the air, and their very own special corner of it.”

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“I pull the veil aside and step through its portals dreams rush to meet me.”

— Sun Ra