Horror Quote by Stephen King

“The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a whole world within him.”

— Victor Hugo

“He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.”

— Rhian Ellis

“He could smell the blood, feces and rotting flesh. He”

— Perrin Briar

“the stench that greeted her inside instantly took her mind from the locked door. It was an overpowering odor, like a mixture of human…

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

“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

“Even worse, there was a smell. Musky and warm, like old blood. It made his throat close, and he wanted to wretch.”

— Victor LaValle

“Smell unlocks your past. It brings you back to another time you didn’t know you had in you to remember.”

— Nadine Bjursten

“...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

“the creature belched a cloud of stink, the smell like rotting meat.”

— Paul S. Kemp

“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

“It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.”

— Mary Balogh

“They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once did they opened the door that leads to the soul; never once did they…

— Henry Miller