74 Quotes by Patrick Süskind

Whatever the art or whatever the craft - and make a note of this before you go - talent means next to nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

He had to hold his body very still, very still, like some vessel about to slosh over from too much motion. Gradually he managed to get control of his breathing. His excited heart beat more steadily; the pounding of the waves inside him subsided slowly. And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusky reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened, and he entered. The next performance in the theatre of his soul was beginning.

A babe whose feet smell of fresh butter, of bodily smells of pancakes and milky goodness and “where the hair makes a cowlick” smells like caramel, so sweet.

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

Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer

God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men.

He was so full of disgust, disgust at the world and at himself, that he could not weep.

She was one of those languid women, made of dark honey, smooth and sweet, and terribly sticky, who take control of a room with a syrupy gesture, a toss of the hair, a single slow whiplash of the eyes — and all the while remain as still as the centre of a hurricane, apparently unaware of the force of gravity by which they irresistibly attract themselves the yearnings and the souls of both men and women.

Se fue volviendo cada vez más introvertido. Le gustaba vagar solo y sin rumbo...