Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 8 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Perfume book by Patrick Suskind. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Perfume Quotes
In the eighteenth century there was nothing to hinder bacteria busy at decomposition, and so there was no human activity, either constructive or destructive, no manifestation of germinating or decaying life that was not accompanied by stench.
from Perfume book by Patrick Suskind
Whoever has survived his own birth in a garbage can is not so easily shoved back out of this world again.
from Perfume book by Patrick Suskind
Perfume lives in time; it has its youth, its maturity, and its old age. And only if it gives off a scent equally pleasant at all three different stages of its life, can it be called successful.
from Perfume book by Patrick Suskind
God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men.
from Perfume book by Patrick Suskind
Whatever the art or whatever the craft—and make a note of this before you go!—talent means next to nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
from Perfume book by Patrick Suskind
Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.
from Perfume book by Patrick Suskind
People could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they could not escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who could not defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.
from Perfume book by Patrick Suskind
People are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes.
from Perfume book by Patrick Suskind