Quote by Colin Dodds

“Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned, leaning, turning…

— Lisel Mueller

“A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“Abandoned and forgotten houses often hide the greatest stories!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The house, though new to us when we purchased it in the spring, was almost three hundred years old, an uninhabited wreck we had…

— Thomas Tryon

“An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Abandoned buildings are like abandoned people. They grow bitter and start to keep bad company.”

— Louise Welsh

“Though he was only twenty-six, he felt that he had watched the decay and dissolution of a hundred years. Nothing of the past remained…

— Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

“one could argue that those who have abandoned their homes do not deserve to live there and enjoy them”

— Jose Saramago

“Whoever has no house now will not build one anymore/Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long time/will stay up, read, write…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“A grandfather clause, I thought. And what place was more fitted for one than an old-age home?”

— Stephen King

“She loved old houses and old legends well enough to enjoy them; but was not sufficiently credulous to believe, or cowardly to fear, them.”

— E.D.E.N. Southworth