60 City Lights Quotes To Brighten Your Night

“In the country, the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.” – W. Somerset Maugham

“The bright city lights blurred my existence, come meet me in the dark and talk to me in silence.” – Trisha Paul

“Baby you, me, and the city lights.”

“Every city of light is able to hide it’s dark side in a plain sight.”

“It was the city lights and night stars that inspired her to shine brighter everyday.”

“Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.” – Henry Louis Gates

“Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.” – Sogyal Rinpoche

“The lights of a big city can make you forget deepest of your pain!!” – Riya Sharma

“Let city lights guide you home.”

“Bright lights, big city, she dreams of love. Bright lights, big city, he lives to run.” – 30 Seconds to Mars

“What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.” – Jonathan Sacks

“Seeing lights being put up along the street and these colored lanterns called parols being put up at people’s houses makes Christmas in Philippines magical.” – Catriona Gray

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” – Muhammad Ali

“I rather wonder what am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The luck of sudden money.”

“Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.” – Dustin Milligan

“If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the “right” thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“City lights take me away now it’s time we never ever head down. Don’t be scared, I am for real hide away and we will never be found.”

“I am happy I live in the city of light.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” – Nora Ephron

“She was the city lights, the fireflies, the candlelight and everything else that made the darkness look beautiful.”

“Turn on every light in New York City I’d still be blind if you weren’t with me.”

“In this deep city lights, girl could get lost tonight. I’m finding every reason to be gone. There’s nothing here to hold on to…Could I hold on to you?

“When the city light turn on and the sun begins to wane. Does your soul look down and wave at the lights? Do you pretend that they are stars?”

“I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.” – John Lee Hooker

“I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a “conspiracy” against higher thoughts.” – Terry Tempest Williams

“Every time you fade into the night just remember nothings brighter, you’re the city lights!”

“City light appears to me like stars. They both twinkle and look beautiful from a distance but both can burn you down.” – Tanisha Pati

“City lights create the perfect illusion to divert us from the real dark side of the world.” – Manku

“Let me do to you what rain does to city lights and reflecting street puddles. Blurred outlines melting together to paint an abstract canvas.”

“It’s been a while since I saw a sky filled with stars. Does the city lights blind us or is it a punishment for all our sins?”

“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton

“Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. … City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.” – Inez Haynes Irwin

“World’s flying like birds; my car’s in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I’m in flight. The sky’s a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We’ll tread the sky, we’ll ride the scarlet horses.” – Tanith Lee

“Take me some place where we can watch the sunset fade into twilight and city lights come alive. Some place where I can tell you all my uncertainties and you can put your arms around me. For once, I will let my walls crumble in to this wonderful thing called love.”

“My city lights are like fireflies in my heart.”

“At night, the city comes alive with color.” – Maria Powell

“New York at night, from it’s bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light.” – Melissa Febos

“The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

“Some nights I just want to chase the city lights, concede the lies before the heavy truth and escape from some people’s heart.”

“I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.” – Drake

“The city lights shine down below, like the stars do there above, one flickers, one twinkles, I close my eyes and make a wish, darkness eats the city down. A pale black sky gawks at me, someone whispers, he’s not coming back.” – Niharika Yadav

“I’ve always liked street light, and I’ve always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two or three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.” – Harmony Korine

“Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome — black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in mid afternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds.” – Barack Obama

“But treat dimes fair and am bigger than the lights down in times square.” – Puff Daddy

“There is so much beauty when your eyes lay lost in all the city lights.”

“I love Christmas, not because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.” – Ashley Tisdale

“My heart burns for the city lights.”

“City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection… red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors… fresh peaches, no pit.” – Action Bronson

“As a kid, the city lights fascinated me like anything!! But growing up taught me… that the lanterns of villages were far more comforting.” – Ananya Dutta

“Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia, there’s a little utopia.” – Margaret Atwood

“All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirling ribbons of light, red, green, violet, were festooned about the doorways of drugstores and restaurants–and the ...

... famous electric signs of Broadway had come to life with glittering fish, dancing figures, and leaping fountains, all flashing like fire. Everything was beautiful. Up in the deepening sky above the city the first stars appeared white and rare as diamonds.” – Elizabeth Enright

“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Thank the night for giving spotlight to the city lights.”

“Red is one of the strongest colors, it’s blood, it has a power with the eye. That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well… In fact, I use red in all of my paintings.” – Keith Haring

“Scintillating street lights and the shinny stella. The twain came to light dazzling down the horizon. Shone sapphire moonlight cascading it’s reflection. Citylights looked delightful and frail. Long twirling ribbons of luminescence flashed the air with fire, filled me with solace, lustre and grace. The ...

... picturesque seemed to be a fantasy that would go on to a beautiful destiny.”