Old Buildings Quotes

“Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1

“the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“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

“All old building become crypts the moment they're finished, A shrine to a time that's already dead.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Old buildings always end up garnering ghost stories, it’s just part of their mythos.”
― Zachery Knowles, True Ghost Stories: Real Police Ghost Stories: True Tales of the Paranormal as Told by Cops and Other Law Enforcement Officials

“If her walls could talk they might recount the stories of generations of families, of two World Wars, of prayers she has heard, of joys she has shared, and somber times of sorrow, grief, and loss.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Comfort

“People , by and large, are fearful of old buildings, just as they fear the elderly themselves.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“She paints all kinds of things: stones, rocks, cracked walls, old houses, broken bicycles. She loves old things; the history attached with dilapidated structures. The strugglers of life have a soul she says.

A building has a soul; the architect who designed it gave a part of his soul. And the workers who gave their sweat and blood to build it gave a part of their soul too.

New things make her feel revolted. She asks "Where is their soul?"
Of what good is a broken bicycle I ask her. She flashes me a contemptuous look. As she knows that I already know her answer.”
― Avijeet Das