Urban Stress Quotes

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

I'm in New York a lot. And every time I'm in New York, I'm out every night - it's a bit much. After a week, I'm ready to go home.

New York can be a tad stressful.

I'm kind of getting over the whole Manhattan life. I'm from Vancouver, and that means mountains and a lot of space.

Mumbai is becoming more and more of a nightmare.

Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

I think, a lot of times in a big city, you're working even when you're not.

I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

It's so busy in London, and I'm used to the countryside, fields, family, the horses and stuff.

I like going down to London for a couple of days, but it's a place where I'd never fancy living - too busy, too lively, people on top of you.

Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time...

I fall asleep to a movie every night! I don't have a go-to movie, but I like Netflix or whatever I can find. Usually, it's just noise in the background; I think it's damage from living in New York, where it's so noisy.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

It would be a nice place if you took all the people out of the city.

New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.

I'm affected by my environment. Los Angeles makes me defensive and wary.

When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.

Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression rates tend to go up. I read one study that compared women in North America with women in Nigeria, and the group with the highest rates of depression was urban North American women, which is the wealthiest. Now, there are obviously huge stresses that come with poverty, but the poorer the society, the more collaborative people have to be.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

If I had moved to Tokyo, I might even have become a completely different person... although, ever since the start, I've never wanted to move to Tokyo. I just can't handle there being so many people.

New York is hard living. It's fun living, but it's hard.