This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely new, capable of creating a …

- Patrick Süskind

...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.

- Patrick Süskind

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.

- Patrick Süskind

For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent.…

- Patrick Süskind

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 pe…

- Patrick Süskind

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

- Patrick Süskind

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

- Patrick Süskind

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

- Patrick Süskind

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

- Patrick Süskind