Quotes From Perfume The Story Of A Murderer
Introduction
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" is a novel by German author Patrick Süskind. The book was first published in 1985 and tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an 18th-century Frenchman who is born with no body odor but with a highly developed sense of smell. The novel has been adapted into a movie and has gained popularity over the years. Here are some quotes from the book that will make you fall in love with the story."
The Sense Of Smell
"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.”
"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."
"Odor was the prayer of matter."
The Character Of Grenouille
"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."
"He knew her smell, he knew it from the past, from his own past, from the past of his ancestors, it was the smell of woman, the smell of a woman he had known, and he felt himself drawn to her by the smell, purely and simply by the smell."
The Art Of Perfume Making
"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it himself, namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
"With this perfume, I’ll turn the whole world into a loving couple. With this perfume, I’ll be able to do everything I want."
The Power Of Fragrance
"In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank of moldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlors stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets, damp featherbeds, and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber pots."
"He could smell it. It was a scent less tangible than sight or sound, yet it had the power to move him in a way that no other sense could. It was the scent of a soul, something he had never imagined but knew at once was the essence of all life around him."
The Conclusion
Perfume is one of the most interesting novels of all times. It is a book that can be read and re-read without ever getting bored. The quotes mentioned above are just a few of the many interesting and thought-provoking lines from the book. If you haven't read the book yet, be sure to give it a try!
