Old Houses Quotes

“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.
Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life?
And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.”
― Nora Roberts, Key of Knowledge

“Hill House has an impressive list of tragedies connected with it, but then, most old houses have. People have to live and die somewhere, after all, and a house can hardly stand for eighty years without seeing some of its inhabitants die within its walls.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Out along the dim six-o’clock street, I saw leafless trees standing, striking the sidewalk there like wooden lightning, concrete split apart where they hit, all in a fenced-in ring. An iron line of pickets stuck out of the ground along the front of a tangleweed yard, and on back was a big frame house with a porch, leaning a rickety shoulder hard into the wind so’s not to be sent tumbling away a couple of blocks like an empty cardboard grocery box.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“The reality is that old houses that were built a hundred years ago were built by actual craftsmen, people who were the best in the world at what they did. The little nuances in the woodwork, the framing of the doors, the built-in nooks, the windows—all had been done by smart, talented people, and I quickly found that uncovering those details and all of that character made the house more inviting and more attractive and more alive.”
― Joanna Gaines, The Magnolia Story

“Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Neither of us had lived in a house since we were kids; apartments, it turns out, are very different things, psychologically. Houses—especially old and creaky houses—are individuals, somehow; their fronts are faces, their closets are pants pockets.”
― Ben Dolnick

“I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

“How beautiful the house was with
its magnolia trees lining the drive,
their branches outstretched as if they
were beckoning him inside. Rose tipped
blossoms caught the last of the sun’s
golden light, giving the flowers
an ethereal glow that shimmered
and looked magical.”
― Ellen Read, Love The Gift

“Most people these days chase new things - new houses, new cars, new objects. But, they don't realise that old houses, old cars, and old objects have something that new things don't have - their history and culture.

I pity these educated morons who chase new things.

My Mom and Dad choose to stay in our old house in my hometown, because it was the house they built with their hard work and love. It is the house where my mother writes her beautiful poetry. It is the house where my father treats his patients. It is a house which has books, culture, cracks and yes history.”
― Avijeet Das

“Most people these days chase new things - new houses, new cars, new objects. But, they don't realise that old houses, old cars, and old objects have something that new things don't have - their history and culture.

We must look at life from each other's perspective. There is nothing fascinating about chasing new things.

My Mom and Dad choose to stay in our old house in my hometown, because it was the house they built with their hard work and love. It is the house where my mother writes her beautiful poetry. It is the house where my father treats his patients. It is a house which has books, culture, cracks and yes history.”
― Avijeet Das

“اعطني بيت قديم مملوء بالذكريات و سأعطيك مئات الروايات..”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A house on the verge of collapse does not tremble with fear just because a big storm is on the horizon! On the contrary, he waits silently, with the air of a confident commander, despite the overwhelmingly powerful enemy!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“New owners of an abandoned house always have questions they can't get rid of: Who were the previous owners? What did they eat, what did they talk, what was the purpose of their life, what was the sadness and joy in their lives?”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“How does dirt find its way into old houses like it does? Sometimes I think it's the house itself, old and disintegrating by degrees, breathing out sighs of itself, sighs longing for a little bit of notice.”
― Lisa Samson, A Thing of Beauty

“The first thing to know about living in an old house: The walls are alive.”
― Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

“I like to think of the houses I build as having their own personalities. Oh, there's the people who are their custodians to consider, of course, a symbiosis in the relationship between the house and its owner, but sometimes these grand estates have a way of forcing their residents to their will, of bending and shaping the trajectory of their lives. After all, when our bones turn to dust, these wall will still stand.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay