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Top 25 Patrick Süskind Quotes (2025 Update)

Patrick Süskind Quote: “And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille’s soul was beginning.”

1. “And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille’s soul was beginning.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”

2. “Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”

3. “He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.”

4. “When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.”

5. “He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it’s claws in you, picks at your eyes...”

6. “No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it’s claws in you, picks at your eyes...”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.”

7. “Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”

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

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.”

9. “He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.”

10. “He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.”

11. “She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.”

12. “He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.”

13. “And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.”

14. “Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men.”

15. “God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.”

16. “It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “There comes a time in every man’s life when he needs his own toilet.”

17. “There comes a time in every man’s life when he needs his own toilet.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it...”

18. “With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it...”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!”

19. “He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.”

20. “He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.”

21. “He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear that had seized him, and in admitting it he grew calmer and his thoughts clearer.”

22. “Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear that had seized him, and in admitting it he grew calmer and his thoughts clearer.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one’s existence could crumble.”

23. “How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one’s existence could crumble.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “And finally – he was neither able nor willing to prevent it – the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.”

24. “And finally – he was neither able nor willing to prevent it – the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “Mrs. Porter was fat, and her breath smelled like burnt newspapers.”

25. “Mrs. Porter was fat, and her breath smelled like burnt newspapers.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “As long as I don’t have an idea, I won’t write anything.”

26. “As long as I don’t have an idea, I won’t write anything.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “But perhaps we ask too much of him. Perhaps he really was only a god.”

27. “But perhaps we ask too much of him. Perhaps he really was only a god.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “Thronging the bridges and the quays along both banks of the river, a crowd of many thousands accompanied the spectacle with ah’s and oh’s and even some “long live”’s – although the king had ascended his throne more than thirty-eight years before and the high point of his popularity was long since behind him. Fireworks can do that.”

28. “Thronging the bridges and the quays along both banks of the river, a crowd of many thousands accompanied the spectacle with ah’s and oh’s and even some “long live”’s – although the king had ascended his throne more than thirty-eight years before and the high point of his popularity was long since behind him. Fireworks can do that.”

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Patrick Süskind Quote: “You see?′ said Baldini, equally both satisfied and disappointed; and he straightened up. ‘You can’t do it. Of course you can’t. You’re one of those people who know whether there is chervil or parsley in the soup at meal-time. That’s fine, there’s something to be said for that. But that doesn’t make you a cook.”

29. “You see?′ said Baldini, equally both satisfied and disappointed; and he straightened up. ‘You can’t do it. Of course you can’t. You’re one of those people who know whether there is chervil or parsley in the soup at meal-time. That’s fine, there’s something to be said for that. But that doesn’t make you a cook.”

— Patrick Süskind

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