Broken Quote by Marcel Proust

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us…

— Marcel Proust

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

— Cyril Connolly

I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as…

— Jaimal Yogis

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

All things deteriorate in time.

— Virgil

I remember specific times and people in my life so much more clearly if I smell something that brings me back to them.

— Margot Robbie

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of…

— Anonymous

All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over them. They…

— Vimala Thakar