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....

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

He had to hold his body very still, very still, like some vessel about to slosh over from too much motion.....

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

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

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,....