2,405 Quotes About Cities

Cities allow us to extract some of the transactional services that were assumed to be an integral, gendered aspect of traditional marriage and enjoy them as actual transactional service, for which we pay. This dynamic also permits women to function in the world in a way that was once impossible, with the city serving as spouse and, sometimes, true love.

A city is a right place to build a business but not a right place to build a home.

A city has no sense, no sentiment, no soul.

Desire to dwell in clean environment.

...architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades...

London may have more money and Vienna more culture; Rome may have more history and Paris more style. But Glasgow has the biggest heart.

I, sometimes, fear that probably I'll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I'll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do.

The world of silence that endures inside the stones and the bricks, a world devoid of thoughts, feelings or desires, astounds and frightens them. And life without desires seems even more unbearable than the life without fulfillments that is experienced every day by many an inhabitant of the city.

But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial, the hopes and expectations (from Requiem for a Hotel /Nekrolog auf ein Hotel,1918)