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....

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer

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

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.....

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,....