Drown Quote by Patrick Süskind Download Open image ““Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself.”” — Patrick Süskind ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drown Life Smell
“He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.” — Rhian Ellis Copy Share Image
“And the awful thing was that Grenouille, although he knew that this odour was his odour, could not smell it. Virtually drowning in himself,… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now for the first time could he truly appreciate it.” — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Her fragrance blew him off and his body followed steps he had never learnt in his life.” — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“It seemed odd that a man's smell should cling in the folds of a curtain so long after the man himself had become dead… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep.” — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it's all not true” — Snow Patrol Copy Share Image
“The smell of him when he was sleeping, the sound of his breathing -- that was home and everything I wanted at the end… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“She can smell him now, a smudge of unwashed skin, poverty, extreme loneliness. She takes the can, still holding his hand, unrolling it, running… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Although he, like all people, secretely enjoyed the smell of his own farts, the smell of his shit was somethig else. It was so… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“…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 Copy Share Image
“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under water when… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“He couldn't remember the last time human hands had willingly touched him. Not true. Miranda had. She had touched him as if he were… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more… — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
“I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death. ” — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil” — Imam Ali as Copy Share Image
“You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
I watched people blow up after the XXL cover, and I watched people drown - you know what I'm saying? And that's not what… — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
