Quote by William S. Burroughs

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

— William Saroyan

“Immediately the sounds of the street below grew detached, distant, the meaningless echoes of urban voices whose urgent notes reached but held no sway…

— Barry Eisler

“This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets.”

— William Shakespeare

“The dead kept vigil in the streets, in homes, demanding peace and justice.”

— Maurizio de Giovanni

“Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a…

— Herman Melville

“I don’t even like cemeteries. Morgues, either, nor anatomy museums, undertakers’ parlors, funeral chapels, or any of those places where the world of the…

— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis

“underlying notion that when you live in the streets; you die in the streets.”

— Elaine Allen

“You walk down the street and people are just graveyards, really.”

— Kirk Read

“After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his little village…

— Bruno Schulz

“Those people with perfect houses are simply obsessed with death. A house that is so well maintained, furnished with good-looking furniture of high quality,…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“Take a moment in between breaths to let yourself see what's left to be seen, all the places you've been. Your old haunts. I…

— Anne Clendening

“Sometimes a street is so silent, so dead, and so empty that one wonders if one is still alive, and it is such a…

— Mehmet Murat ildan