Dark-history Quote by Hadinet Tekie

“When my parents died I could remember them through the building that we lived in. Buildings aren’t so much about recollecting time as about…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“Buildings are not very good at remembering the people who once occupied them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Memories. Weighty emptinesses. I live in a memory the size and shape of a house.”

— Christopher Reid

“Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last.”

— Jill Telford

“Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use rubble of the old to raise up new ones. Some…

— Tom Pollock

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you…

— Clarence Clemons

“Memories of the past are strewn like shards of glass, sometimes, lost in the mist, a distant blur, yet alive. You walk through them,…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that…

— Carl Sandburg

“I looked around. This house only the night before had been a home, and serves as a storage locker for memories that I could…

— laurie notaro

“I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of…

— Anne Spollen

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch