Quotes About Scent And Memory

#1. Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.

Cate Blanchett

#2. If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

Daphne Du Maurier

#3. Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.

D.E. Stevenson

#4. If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'You know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.

Jeff Foxworthy

#5. Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.

Elif Shafak

#6. There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

E.H. Gombrich

#7. The human brain is fascinating; we will forget a scent until we smell it again, we will erase a voice from our memory until we hear it again,and even emotions that seemed buried forever will be awakened when we return to the same place.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. If you knew you were
going to lose your memory
but you could choose five things
you'd never forget, what would they be -
a certain face, a taste, a scent,
a touch; how deep
in this, the middle
of your life?

Kristen Henderson

#10. Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

Fern Schumer Chapman

#11. If the other side is better, no matter how the bridge is dangerous, cross to the other side!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. But before she'd start reading, she'd pass the book around to the students. Each child had to inhale the pages, thereby infusing the scent and memory as one into their subconscious.

Carmen DeSousa

#13. There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Stellan Skarsgard

#14. I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

Diana Vreeland

#15. I don't get stressed out.

Andrew Mason

#16. There was carpet under Blanchefleur's feet and the scent of clean and delicate things in her nostrils - perfume, babies, soap, and tea. Homesickness hit her like a clenched fist; this was worse than memory.

Suzannah Rowntree

#17. Eleanor wrapped her arms around aniel's neck as he lowered her feet to the cold floor. She leaned into him and inhaled his scent - warm and clean with the slightest hing of fireplace smoke - and committed it to memory.
"Don't worry," she said, finally letting him go. "I miss you already.

Tiffany Reisz

#18. My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

John Slattery

#19. The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.

Emma Goldman