Quotes by : Patrick Süskind

Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows....

And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.

He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived....

As he took possession of it, he was overcome by a sense of something like sacred awe. He carefully spread....

And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors....

Moonlight knew no colors and traced the contours of the terrain only very softly. It covered the land....

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.....

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

When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile.....

The smell of the sea pleased him so much that he wanted one day to take it in, pure and unadulterated,....