Grenouille's Quotes

#1. Grenouille's mother, however, perceived the odor neither of the fish nor of the corpses, for her sense of smell had been utterly dulled, besides which her belly hurt, and the pain deadened all susceptibility of sensate impressions.

Patrick Suskind

#2. 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.

Patrick Suskind

#3. Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

Lily Donaldson

#4. For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance.

Patrick Suskind

#5. I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

Edward Abbey

#6. So spoke Grenouille the Great and, while the peasantry of scent danced and celebrated beneath him, he glided with wide-stretched wings down from his golden clouds, across the nocturnal fields of his soul, and home to his heart.

Patrick Suskind

#7. Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.

Patrick Suskind

#8. Every day, I am thinking:
'How can I lead all living beings
to enter the unsurpassed way
so as to quickly acquire the body of a Buddha?
(LS 16: 3.23)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 16, Section 3, Paragraph 23

Gautama Buddha

#9. I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.

Olga Kurylenko

#10. Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

Andrew Carnegie

#11. Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

Ann Landers

#12. I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

Ben Whishaw

#13. We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

Julian Assange

#14. The criminal mind is perverted and convoluted but almost invariably unimaginative,'he said as Molly came out in a fluster

M.R.C. Kasasian