“Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer” — Patrick Süskind Depression 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
...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep… — Patrick Süskind Arms Copy Share Image
“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively… — Patrick Süskind Mind Copy Share Image
He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted. — Patrick Süskind People Copy Share Image
“And now fear spread over the countryside. People no longer knew against whom to direct their impotent rage.” — Patrick Süskind Countryside Copy Share Image
He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world! — Patrick Süskind Abhorrent Copy Share Image
She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet… — Patrick Süskind Beauty 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
“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
“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
“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
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 Acid 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 Capable 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
Odours have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will. The persuasive power of an odour cannot… — Patrick Süskind Appearance 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
“He had a mighty urge to pull out his pistol and let loose in every directon, right into the coffeehouse, smack through… — Patrick Süskind Mind Copy Share Image
“He had to hold his body very still, very still, like some vessel about to slosh over from too much motion. Gradually… — patrick suskind Heart beat Copy Share Image
“He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole… — Patrick Süskind Perfume Copy Share Image
“and Grenouille’s mother, who was still a young woman, barely in her mid-twenties, and who still was quite pretty and had almost… — Patrick Süskind Children 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
“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
And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and… — Patrick Süskind Able Copy Share Image
“For here, inside the crypt, was where he truly lived. Which is to say, for well over twenty hours a day in… — Patrick Süskind Mind Copy Share Image
And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and… — Patrick Süskind Dark Copy Share Image
He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of… — Patrick Süskind Able Copy Share Image
No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and… — Patrick Süskind Anarchy Copy Share Image
“There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and… — Patrick Süskind Perfume Copy Share Image
“There were no mad flashings of the eye, no lunatic grimace passed over his face. He was not out of his mind,… — Patrick Süskind Happy person Copy Share Image
