Abandoned Quote by Bruce Sterling

“Traditional homes of our old world have been abandoned, windows shattered, roofs collapsing, red and green and blue paint scrubbed into muted shades to…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out? Our own place…

— Markus Zusak

“And if it does not seem possible to see between the myths, the heroes, the propaganda, the hindsight and the tall tales, then do…

— Sam Meekings

“There were Palladian windows and a number of roof peaks and an assortment of architectural conceits, all overlooking a vast lawn devoid of ornamentation.”

— Robert B. Parker

“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to…

— Jonathan Hale

“The Windows In these dark rooms where I pass such listless days, I wander up and down looking for the windows – when a…

— Constantinos P. Cavafis

... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the…

— Selma Lagerlöf

The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“THE WINDOWS Within these dark chambers, where I live through oppressive days, I pace up and down, trying to find the windows.-When a window…

— C.P. Cavafy

“The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism,…

— Chris Elliott

“The buildings were as real yet ethereal as the abandoned shell of a cicada, clinging to a tree branch, molded by the life it…

— Linda Lafferty

“not the old trees, not even the old memories. Clustering traditions had fled in the white blaze of electricity; the quaint brick walks, with…

— Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow