„There is a community of the spiritJoin it, and feel the delightof walking in the noisy street,and being the noise.“

— Rumi

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„They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.“
— William Golding
„I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.“
— Charles Bukowski
„This melancholy London. I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.“
— W.B. Yeats
„To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of meaningless activity; by night, they’re full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.“
— Ayn Rand
„I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead: men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideals.“
— Charles Bukowski
„Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.“
— Jimmy Carter