Quotes by : Patrick Süskind

For here, inside the crypt, was where he truly lived. Which is to say, for well over twenty hours a day....

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

He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-though never so egregiously....

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

Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer

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

He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably....

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....

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