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....

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.

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

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

We are familiar with people who seek out solitude: penitents, failures, saints, or prophets. They retreat....

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they....

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

…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed....

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