73 Quotes About City-life

Slanting sun rays entering through the window panes like an uninvited guest, chit chat of the neighbourhood aunties complaining about their maids, traffic scratching out its way with noisy horns, vegetable vendors, loud uncles, ironworkers and many other unrecognizable sounds; enough reasons to wake me up amidst the Chandni Chowk’s volant lifestyle.

He sensed, now, that the streets on which he sold boza in the night and the universe in his mind were one and the same .... the world within his soul reflected in the shadows of the city.

At night, he could sense the weight of the concrete, the hardness, and the horrors of the city around him.

In those moments, he would realize that this city where he’d spent forty years of his life, where he’d passed through thousands and thousands of doors, getting to know the insides of people’s homes, was no less an ephemeral thing than the life he’d lived there and the memories he’d made.

Són els llogaters del tercer tercera. Una història més a la ciutat.

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.

The City was the acme of efficiency, but it made demands of its inhabitants. It asked them to live in a tight routine and order their lives under a strict and scientific control.

The energy of the town threatened to suck me into it, and realized how much weaker I was than before. Everyone has trouble living. I know that. But the present me is nearly powerless in this city.

He began to see that the town life was a book of humanity infinitely more palpitating, varied, and compendious than the gown life. These struggling men and women before him were the reality of Christminster, though they knew little of Christ or Minster. That was one of the humours of things. The floating population of students and teachers, who did know both in a way, were not Christminster in a local sense at all.