Old house Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“My hope, for all future generations, is that they will have (in addition to sunshine, fresh air, clean water, and fertile soil) a somewhat…

— Anonymous

“A long suburb of red brick houses -some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and coarse rank…

— Charles Dickens

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

— Mark Victor Hansen

“November Graveyard (1956) The scene stands stubborn: skinflint trees Hoard last year's leaves, won't mourn, wear sackcloth, or turn To elegiac dryads, and dour…

— Sylvia Plath

Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.

— John Newlove

“Even in memory, I am terrified by those solitudes! When foul weather is unleashed in that part of the world, the rain seems kin…

— Pablo Neruda

“Dank- "Death can't help what fate decides”

— Abbi Glines

Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation…

— Honore de Balzac

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one…

— Isaac Marion