586 Quotes About Crowd

The city continued on its way. Boys tried to sell me drumsticks, girls played hopscotch, the Bihari badly worker carried his gathri of ironed clothes to the homes from which they had come, and the buses honked at suicidal cyclists. At one level this was vaguely confusing. Surely, something should acknowledge how much things had changed? At another level, it was oddly comforting.

You must be very proud; the whole city crowded with your lovers.

No matter how different you are, no matter how different you think, no matter how extraordinary or how ordinary you are, when you get on a train, you will go in the same direction as everyone on that train! That's what happens to you if you mingle with the crowds! The crowd always takes you where it goes!

Crowds cause damage to the mind and body, and the only cure for this is to go away from the crowds for a while!

The biggest difference between a river and a river of crowds is that the first always reaches its goal, but the second usually gets tired and disperses before it reaches its goal!

To understand the universe and life deeply, it is necessary to get away from the crowds because crowds means chattering, it means producing empty words, it means not thinking! The crowd is a huge waste of time!

The clever person is not among the crowd, but outside of it! He has his own way, free from crowds!

A crowd-loving person will be deprived of the treasures of silence!

No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance seem to the eye like one body; a sense-deception, as when the noise of the many at a distance seems to the ear like a single voice.