Quote by Patrick Süskind

“He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.”

— Patrick Süskind

“...if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city - even if it was just the door…

— Patrick Süskind

With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into…

— Patrick Süskind

“…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of…

— Patrick Süskind

“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.”

— Patrick Süskind

When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For…

— Patrick Süskind

For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape…

— Patrick Süskind

“The wind blew cold, and he was freezing, but he did not notice that he was freezing, for within him was a counterfrost, fear.”

— Patrick Suskind

“Something was happening while you waited. The most essential thing was happening. And even if he himself was doing nothing, it was happening through…

— Patrick Süskind

“Although he had used it very sparingly, the perfume that he had mixed in Montpellier was slowly was slowly running out. He created a…

— Patrick Süskind

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in…

— Patrick Süskind

“This scent had a freshness, but not the freshness of limes or pomegranates, not the freshness of myrrh or cinnamon bark or curly mint…

— Patrick Suskind