Smells Quotes

389 Smells quotes by 316 unique authors

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound… — Douglas Adams
It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that… — Laura Esquivel
I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I… — Graham Greene
O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. — William Shakespeare
The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53] — Richard Paul Evans
Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And… — David Foster Wallace
The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! -… — Joseph Conrad
...Life is nothing but trading smells. — Italo Calvino
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them.… — Terry Pratchett
An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant. — Jim Butcher
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
Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast ‘em, fry… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a… — Laura Whitcomb
A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days… — Sophie Kinsella
No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need… — Chuck Palahniuk
Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex." "At least you… — Cassandra Clare
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and… — Julio Cortazar
By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned… — Cassandra Clare
Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names… — Haruki Murakami
Death smells like birthday cake. — Maggie Stiefvater
*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who… — Elizabeth Berg
The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near… — Marcus Aurelius
It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you. — Eric Roth
The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over… — Isak Dinesen
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems… — Sherwood Smith

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