Fragrance 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

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Marcel Proust

“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

— Marcel Proust

“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“The dead would be buried, and over time everything would be absorbed. All that remained would be a vague memory in their souls, the…

— Donato Carrisi

“...memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate…

— Charles Dickens

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet…

— Oscar Wilde

And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of…

— William Wordsworth

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

— John Galsworthy