Urban Existence Quotes

I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross.

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

I have a whole life in New York and a life in L.A. and to live one-third of the year in a place that isn't one of those is kind of a bummer.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.

'Atlanta' is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this city is its own breathing, living thing, too. So how do you navigate through life, especially with dreams and aspirations in a world that tells you that you don't deserve to have them.

Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.