Quotes by Patrick Süskind

Patrick Süskind

…he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm’s length.

Arms

Length

People

…talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Hard Work

Humility

Mean

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

Believe

Girl

Stupid

And finally – he was neither able nor willing to prevent it – the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.

Eye

Hate

Self

And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille’s soul was beginning.

Dark

Eye

Heart

As long as I don’t have an idea, I won’t write anything.

Ideas

Long

Writing

Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear that had seized him, and in admitting it he grew calmer and his thoughts clearer.

Agitation

Fear

Sweat

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 scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn’t 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.

Brother

Hate

Heart

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

Favors

Malice

Spite

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

Abhorrent

Humans

World

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Agitation

Arms

Believe

Brother

Burning

Carriages

Creating

Danger

Dark

Done

Enthusiasm

Existence

Eye

Favors

Fear

Felt

Firsts

Flames

Found

Foundation

Girl

Goes On

Hands

Hard Work

Hate

Heart

Home

House

Humans

Humility

Ideas

Left

Length

Long

Made

Malice

Mean

Men

Needs

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Odor

People

Pleasure

Principles

Proud

Refuge

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Quotes by Patrick Süskind

Patrick Süskind

…he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm’s length.

…talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

And finally – he was neither able nor willing to prevent it – the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.

And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille’s soul was beginning.

As long as I don’t have an idea, I won’t write anything.

Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear that had seized him, and in admitting it he grew calmer and his thoughts clearer.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

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