Scent Quotes

396 Scent quotes by 310 unique authors

All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each… — Hermann Hesse
If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance of… — Jean Klein
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It… — Olive Schreiner
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless… — Victor Hugo
My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under… — Andy Rooney
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses… — Alexander Smith
In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites. — Emily M. Danforth
I carry McCormick’s Pure Vanilla [in my purse]—the baking kind—and dab it on my neck… Men are attracted to the scent! One time, I put… — Jennifer Love Hewitt
I always wanted my own fragrance because I could never find the right scent for me. At home, I would always mix bottles of my… — Nicole Polizzi
If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text… — Mary Szybist
You want the scent? Smell yourself! — Hannibal
But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing… — John Milton
Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a… — Gautama Buddha
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with… — Gautama Buddha
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in… — Libba Bray
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! — Jules Verne
I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage,… — Tom Ford
The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. — Ian Fleming
In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away. — Yosa Buson
Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality. — Paco Rabanne
Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual,… — Donna Karan
The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of… — Issey Miyake
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their… — Paul Cezanne
For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent. — George Gissing

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