House Quotes

“One does not find solitude, one creates it. Solitude is created alone. I have created it. Because I decided that here was where I should be alone, that I would be alone to write books. It happened this way. I was alone in this house. I shut myself in—of course, I was afraid. And then I began to love it. This house became the house of writing. My books come from this house. From this light as well, and from the garden. From the light reflecting off the pond. It has taken me twenty years to write what I just said.”
― Marguerite Duras, Writing

“You are in the house and the house in the woods. The woods are in the house. The stairs are in the house. Down the stairs is the hallway, and at the end of the hallway is the ballroom. You are in the ballroom. The ballroom is in the house. You are in the house and the house is in you.
The house is in the woods. You are in the woods.
You can be good. In the house.
You are in the house and the house is in today.
Today is not a moment. Today is not a point. Today is an infinite area. Today is forever. Everything that has happened and will happen is now. Everything that has been and will be is here. And everything is good. Everything is fine.
You are not sad. You are not afraid. You are not hateful. Because you are here. You are here. You are inside. And you are ready.
You are here. You are in. And doesn’t it feel good?
You are in the house and the house is in the woods.
You are in the house and the house is in you.”
― Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House

“This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer; the windows are full west.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“In English she is known as a “Housewife”! In Arabic, she is known as “Rabbaitul Bait” or “The Queen of The House”
― Readbeach.com

“When you look at a house, you don't see how happy the people are who live in it.”
― Giovannie de Sadeleer

“If you cannot help but envy others, at least envy people for things such as their patience, perseverance, and tolerance.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This sketch was more elaborate than the others, more complete. A river scene, with a tree in the foreground and a distant wood visible across a broad field. Behind a copse on the right-hand side, the twin-gabled roofline of a house could be seen, with eight chimneys and an ornate weather vane featuring the sun and moon and other celestial emblems.
It was an accomplished drawing, but that's not why Elodie stared. She felt a pang of déjà vu so strong it exerted a physical pressure around her chest.
She knew this place. The memory was as vivid as if she'd been there, and yet somehow Elodie knew that it was a location she'd visited only in her mind.
The words came to her then as clear as birdsong at dawn: "Down the winding lane and across the meadow broad, to the river they went with their secrets and their sword."
And she remembered. It was a story that her mother used to tell her. A child's bedtime story, romantic and tangled, replete with heroes, villains, and a Fairy Queen, set in a house within dark woods encircled by a long, snaking river.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“Once again she was struck by a sense of profound familiarity. She knew this place. In the story that her mother used to tell, the house had been a literal gateway to another world; for Elodie, though, curled up in her mother's arms, breathing in the exotic fragrance of narcissus that she wore, the story itself had been a gateway, an incantation that carried her away from the here and now and into the land of imagination. After her mother's death, the world of the story had become her secret place. Whether at lunchtime in her new school, or at home in the long, quiet afternoons, or at night when the darkness threatened suffocation, all she had to do was hide herself away and close her eyes and she could cross the river, brave the woods, and enter the enchanted house...”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“We walked back to his revived house in tender silence, the dry gold land freckled with young pines and red flowers.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Libby can hear the whisper of every moment that this room has existed. Feel every breath of every person who has ever sat where she is sitting.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs

“Be wary to enter a house whose door is opened by a relative.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“If you think relationships are hard, try growing a house plant. You'll realise that the later won't even tell you why it's sad, so you have to figure that out and do everything possible to make it blossom (or smile) again.”
― Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

“A house that has books has hope.”
― Nitya Prakash

“President Trump has demonstrated that putting a billionaire into the White House does not work, as the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.”
― Steven Magee

“I TRASHED MY PARENTS HOUSE TO LOOK LIKE I HAD HAD A PARTY WHY THEY WERE OUT OF TOWN…

… MY MOM WOULD THINK I HAD FRIENDS:”
― Frank Warren, PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

“The house of your dreams is the house where you stopped dreaming of your dream house because you already own it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A house is not defined by how many rooms or stories it has. I always judge a place by what kind of energies it gives off.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“In the passage of their lives together every object in the garden, every item in the house, every word they spoke, arrested to their mutual love, the combining of their humours.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“Countless organisms are either cut or killed every four or so weeks, just to make us look civilized, sane, and mature through the state of our yard.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An ordinary house outside the city is beautiful; an ordinary house in the forest outside the city is much more beautiful, but a stone house in the forest outside the city is extraordinarily beautiful!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Money can buy a house, but not a home.”
― Dipa Sanatani

“Remove the racist from the White House.”
― Steven Magee

“The key to the house protects our family, so that even when mom and dad are out of the house, it'll be alright. It's proof of the fact that we're family, and we protect each other.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 中

“Live in an outdoor green environment.”
― Steven Magee

“Everything has been done -- every material thing -- to give this place the aspect of benignity, of friendship, of tolerance and conviviality, but the character of a dwelling, like that of a man, grows slowly. The walls of my house are without memories, or secrets, or laughter. Not enough of life has been breathed into them -- their warmth is artificial; too few hands have turned the window latches, too few feet have trod the thresholds. The boards of the floor, self-conscious as youth or falsely proud as the newly rich, have not yet unlimbered enough to utter a single cordial creak. In time they will, but not for me.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“The house is a body, a body houses souls.”
― Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body

“You can give up the walls of your house, but never give up the windows!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is a madman in the White House.”
― Steven Magee

“I would not live in a home that had not been tested for adverse electromagnetic fields.”
― Steven Magee

“The most glamorous makeup for a house is that it is covered in ivies!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan