Ruins Quote by Petrus Borel

“The old men from the charity hospital next door would come jerking past our rooms, making useless, disjointed leaps. They'd go from room to…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no…

— William Shakespeare

“However strong you may think yourself, you cannot enter the Mansions by your own efforts: God, the Lord of the Castle Himself, must admit…

— Padma Aon Prakasha

“The particular rectory I moved in to was attached to the church. This was arguably one of the worst setups possible because living above…

— Charles Benedict

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“What seems to tend to the church's ruin is often overruled to the ruin of the church's enemies, whose pride and malice are fed…

— Matthew Henry

“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“It's an old church and smells like a museum - in a good way, a survived-lots-of-shit-and-still-standing kind of way. Something about the stained-glass windows…

— Chevy Stevens

“I have marked in traveling how lonely houses change their expression as you come near, pass, and leave them. Some frown, others smile. The…

— Emma Frances Dawson

“If we are ever going to dwell in the house of the Lord, I believe, we do so now. If any house is divinely…

— Scott Russell Sanders

“Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.”

— Abdulrazak Gurnah

“The respectable folks-- Where dwell they? They whisper in the oaks, And they sigh in the hay; Summer and winter, night and day, Out…

— Henry David Thoreau