“He was finally able to bask in his own existence; and he found it splendid.” — Patrick Süskind Life Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet. — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble. — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame. — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.” — patrick suskind Disgust Copy Share Image
He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his… — Patrick Süskind Fear Copy Share Image
“The wind blew cold, and he was freezing, but he did not notice that he was freezing, for within him was a… — Patrick Suskind Fear Copy Share Image
“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.” — Patrick Süskind Lapland Copy Share Image
...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces. The peasant stank as… — Patrick Süskind Marriage Copy Share Image
“And the awful thing was that Grenouille, although he knew that this odour was his odour, could not smell it. Virtually drowning… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably good… — Patrick Süskind Angel Copy Share Image
This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“He no longer yearned for his life in the cave. He had experienced that life once and it had proved unlivable. Just… — Patrick Süskind Cave Copy Share Image
“And even knowing that to possess that scent he must pay the terrible price of losing it again, the very possession and… — Patrick Süskind Possession Copy Share Image
Odours have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will. The persuasive power of an odour cannot… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“She had a face so charming that visitors of all ages and both sexes would stand stockstill at the sight of her,… — Patrick Süskind Ice cream Copy Share Image
“Moonlight knew no colors and traced the contours of the terrain only very softly. It covered the land a dirty gray, strangling… — Patrick Süskind Life Copy Share Image
“Walking soothes. There is a healing power in walking. The regular placement of one foot in front of the other while at… — Patrick Süskind Healing Copy Share Image
“…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made… — Patrick Süskind Disgust Copy Share Image
Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“As he took possession of it, he was overcome by a sense of something like sacred awe. He carefully spread his horse… — Patrick Süskind Mind Copy Share Image
“These were virtuoso odours, executed as wonderful little trifles that of course no one but he could admire or would ever take… — Patrick Süskind Happiness Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, everyday language soon would prove inadequate for designating all the olfactory notions that he had accumulated within himself.… — Patrick Süskind Smell Copy Share Image
“He still had enough perfume left to enslave the whole world if he so chose. He could walk to Versailles and have… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“This scent had a freshness, but not the freshness of limes or pomegranates, not the freshness of myrrh or cinnamon bark or… — Patrick Suskind Copy Share Image
“We are familiar with people who seek out solitude: penitents, failures, saints, or prophets. They retreat to deserts, preferably, where they live… — Patrick Suskind Failure Copy Share Image
“Never before in his life had he known what happiness was. He knew at most some very rare states of numbed contentment.… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“...his sleep, though deep as death itself, was not dreamless this time, but threaded with ghostly wisps of dreams. These wisps were… — Patrick Suskind Body odor Copy Share Image
“In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women.… — Patrick Suskind Amazing-writing Copy Share Image
“The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour – that is, a sinful odour.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer” — Patrick Süskind Depression Copy Share Image
