Scent Quotes

396 Scent quotes by 310 unique authors

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his… — Jodi Picoult
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces… — Sara Teasdale
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn… — Barbara Kingsolver
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. — Arthur Conan Doyle
And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a… — Patricia Briggs
She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow… — Eva Ibbotson
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The… — Emily Dickinson
When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw... — Cassandra Clare
rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this. — Paul Celan
For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off a fainter scent.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant… — Oscar Wilde
It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so,… — Jeff Lindsay
She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable… — David Wroblewski
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a… — Emily Giffin
So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what… — Arthur Conan Doyle
When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled… — Kate Atkinson
But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming… — Barbara Kingsolver
There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that… — Debra Ginsberg
It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death,… — Patricia Briggs
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him… — Charles Baudelaire
I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come 'round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a… — Unknown Author
Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use… — Maggie Stiefvater
I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the scent… — Maggie Stiefvater
Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body… — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Scent Quotes

310 authors contributed a total of 396 Scent Quotes, led by these top contributors: