Quotes About Odor

Old books, the kind that give off the smell of dust and decay, an odor Balastair associates with the scent of pure knowledge. Knowledge of new things. Knowledge of new places. Every book a doorway—a cabinet of curiosities opening to a new land.

And oh, could he smell them. It wasn't just the stench of body sweat. It was the rancid odor of human meat. With every breath they gave it off. Blood under their tongue. Long pork between their teeth. Eau de cannibal.

The stench of disinfectant could not entirely mask the odor of human pain.

Just a foul stench, as if every dead man in the vicinity had sat up and expelled a breath

I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets.

This story is about stink, after all, a story about rot, about how life grows out of the most fetid-smelling places. I leaned into the wall of the coiled cabin, snail, the body curled in upon itself, spine coiled, a snake lying in wait.

This story is about stink, after all, a story about rot, about how life grows out of the most fetid-smelling places.

nauseating odor, was called pájaro puerco, a flying pig?

One sailor telling another that his beard smelled of smoke was tantamount to provoking a fight.

The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it, as sick people went down to be dipped in the sea.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. It is human, it is divine, carrion. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life...

Dr. Cochrane and his sister were alone on the sun deck watching the last hold being filled with a cargo of salted hides. The stench was awful.

Dupa powinna pachnie? dup?, a nie wod? kolo?sk?.

The more you stir up crap the more it's going to smell.

That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought. It is a good odour to breathe. It will calm my heart. My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

I read in that Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse.

When a skunk sprays, a lot of bystanders have to deal with the stink.

Givenchy Dahlia Noir perfume that wafted toward me.

And that stunk like an eight-week-old pile of fish guts sitting on the hot blacktop in the middle of August.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

There are eight other instances in the book of Orwell noting the scents of his environment, most of them repugnant. There are two points to be made here. First, sensitivity to odor is a tic of much of his writing. Second, and more unsettling, it is the smell of humanity that repels him. When he notes the smells of nature, even of the barnyard, it is almost always with approval. In contrast, he is always ready to be horrified by mankind.

He's got gas," Aaron explained, his voice muffled by the hand still over his face. "It happens when he eats stuff he's not supposed to." "It's vile," Camael said, glaring at the dog. "Something should be done so that it never happens again.

Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of mystery itself, by the odor of the unknown. We are entranced by the subtle scents and wavering reflections of the unimaginable.

A perfume ought to punch you right on the nose ... I'm not going to sniff for three days to see if it smell or not? it has to have body, and what gives perfume body is the most expensive thing there is.