Smell Quotes

For all the way he loved her. Every song had her memory, every rain had her smell, and every girl had her face.

~ Akshay Vasu

I pass a construction site, abandoned for the night, and a few blocks later, the playground of the elementary school my son attended, the metal sliding board gleaming under a streetlamp and the swings stirring in the breeze. There's an energy to these autumn nights that touches something primal inside of me. Something from long ago. From my childhood in western Iowa. I think of high school football games and the stadium lights blazing down on the players. I smell ripening apples, and the sour reek of beer from keg parties in the cornfields. I feel the wind in my face as I ride in the bed of an old pickup truck down a country road at night, dust swirling in the taillights and the entire span of my life yawning out ahead o me. It's the beautiful thing about youth.There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential. I love my life, but I haven't felt that lightness of being in ages. Autumn nights like this are as close as I get.

~ Blake Crouch

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

~ Elif Shafak

Without the wetness of your love,The fragrance of your water,Or the trickling sounds ofYour voice,I shall always feelthirsty.

~ Suzy Kassem

This was the kack’s cradle, icky-poo’s bassinet. It was Death and Diarrhea, singing duet.

~ Jack Bunbury

When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory

~ Marcel Proust

Sometimes I accidentally walk into the places where I and you had spoken before, existed before, which still have the smell ofyour memories, all of a sudden it starts feeling like I have entered a dark room without a door anywhere. Where I can always hear that song I used to love once before.

~ Akshay Vasu

If she knew how beautiful love is, she would already put it in a box, seal, and preserve it.So she could smell it whenever she wants.

~ Kusumastuti

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

~ P.j. O'rourke

Air freshener is man’s pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

t smells in. Let the smell of hot tarmac in the summer remind you of a meal you ate the first time you landed in a hot place, when the ground smelled like it was melting. Let the smell of salt remind you of a paper basket of fried clams you ate once, squeezing them with lemon as you walked on a boardwalk. Let it reach your deeper interest. When you smell the sea, and remember the basket of hot fried clams, and the sound of skee-balls knocking against each other, let it help you love what food can do, which is to tie this moment to that one. Then something about the wind off the sea will have settled in your mind, and carried the fried clams and squeeze of a lemon with it.

~ Tamar Adler

the toilet is an intimacyonly shared with parents when you are youngand once again when they are olderand with lovers when say on a Sundaymorning stretching into the bathroomyou wake to the sound of stream into bowland go to hug the naked bodystood with its back to you and kiss the neckand taste the whole of the night on thereand smell the morning’s pale yellow lossand take the whole of him in your handand feel the water moving through himand knowing that this is love the prone fleshwhat we expel from the body and what we let inside

~ Andrew Mcmillan

If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.

~ Katy Elizabeth

The American army,” said the Prince of Candia, “has the sweet, warm smell of a blond woman.”“You’re very kind,” said Colonel Jack Hamilton.

~ Curzio Malaparte

Our foyer has a funny smell that doesn't smell like anyplace else. I don't know what the hell it is. It isn't cauliflower and it isn't perfume—I don't know what the hell it is—but you always know you're home.

~ J.d. Salinger

Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.

~ Ian Fleming

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.

~ Kevin Barry

The last thing she remembered before finally drifting off was how nice Steffi's hair smelled.

~ Kim Baldwin

Sleep in my arms like a little cat, I love your snoring and your smell.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I get out of the car, and I'm blasted by the stench of body odor. Cricket is beside me, and he's talking, but his words don't reach my ears.Because it's my mother.Smelling.On my porch.

~ Stephanie Perkins

She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.

~ Keirsten White

There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

~ Anne Tyler

No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain.

~ Nomthandazo Tsembeni

I like the rain, it brings your fragrance everywhere and the nature smells your aroma.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.

~ Ryan Lilly

Nothing is more on the nose,than sun cream.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above.

~ George R.r. Martin

Each day has a color, a smell.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

~ Herbert Rappaport

A man should smell of sweat, not flowers.

~ George R.r. Martin

In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sighing Of Greece.

~ Adelaide Crapsey

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.

~ Jim Butcher

You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.

~ Laura Ruby

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. Hesmells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.

~ Veronica Roth

I love the smell of paper in the morning it smells like victory.

~ Alan Moore

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

~ Robert Duvall

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

~ Barbra Streisand