Patrick Süskind cytaty

„Orkiestra jest odbiciem społeczeństwa, bo i tu, i tam tymi, którzy i tak już muszą robić najgorszą robotę, jeszcze na dodatek się pogardza.”

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

„Ludzie bowiem mogą zamykać oczy na wielkość, na grozę, na piękno, i mogą zamykać uszy na melodie albo bałamutne słowa. Ale nie mogą uciec przed zapachem. Zapach bowiem jest bratem oddechu. Zapach wnika do ludzkiego wnętrza wraz z oddechem i ludzie nie mogą się przed nim obronić, jeżeli chcą żyć. I zapach idzie prosto do serc i tam w sposób kategoryczny rozstrzyga o skłonności lub pogardzie, odrazie lub ochocie, miłości lub nienawiści. Kto ma władzę nad sercami ludzi.”

Kontrabasista

„Muzyka jest czymś bardzo ludzkim. Niezależnym od polityki i historii.”

Pachnidło

„Każdy ma swoje miejsce i robi to, co może. I nie naszą rzeczą jest pytać, jak on do tego doszedł dlaczego tam zostaje…”

Kontrabasista

„Niemowlę to jeszcze nie człowiek, tylko forma przedludzka i nie ma jeszcze w pełni wykształconej duszy.”

Kontrabasista

„Człowiek wydziela zawsze woń ciała – grzeszną woń. Jakże więc niemowlak, który nawet we śnie nie zaznał cielesnego grzechu, miałby pachnieć? Jak powinien pachnieć? Ziuziziuzi? Wcale nie powinien pachnieć!”

Pachnidło

„Niewiedza nie hańbi, większość poczytuje ją za szczęście.”

Pachnidło

„Myślenie, to zbyt trudna sprawa, żeby każdy dyletant mógł się tym zajmować. Ale każdy sądzi, że potrafi myśleć i myśli bez żadnych zahamowań.”

Trzy historie… i jedno rozważanie
Źródło: testament mistrza Mussarda

“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.”

Kontrabasista

Patrick Süskind: Cytaty po angielsku

“… he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.”

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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

Patrick Süskind książka The Pigeon

Źródło: The Pigeon

“There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else. So, to hell with it he thought. To hell with the world. With the perfume. With himself”

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“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.”

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“… talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“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.”

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“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.”

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“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.”

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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

Źródło: Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

“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.”

Patrick Süskind książka The Pigeon

Źródło: The Pigeon

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

Źródło: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer