Quotes About Perception

Grenouille's mother, however, perceived the odor neither of the fish nor of the corpses, for her sense of smell had been utterly dulled, besides which her belly hurt, and the pain deadened all susceptibility of sensate impressions.

Bir düÅŸünün hele, bundan yüz y?l önce olan ya da böyle bir buluÅŸ konusu olan bir ÅŸey, bugün art?k bir Allah'?n kulunu bile heyecanland?ramayacak kadar s?radan hale geliyor.

No podía oler la falta de olor del niño y no esperaba ninguna emoción de él porque su propia alma estaba sellada.

Whenever he met him or saw him sitting somewhere - he felt only the sentiment that is generally termed tolerance: a very lukewarm emotional stew of disgust, contempt, and sympathy.

era una tortura, no se acababa nunca el tiempo en que el mundo real le abrasaba la piel.

Biliyor musunuz, güzel bir sesin kendisi bir fikirdir benim kan?mca, sahibi olan kad?n istediÄŸi kadar budala olsun; müziÄŸin korkunç yan? da bu.

Senin fark?na varmas? için yanl?? çalmak zorundaysan, o zaman hiç fark?na varmas?n daha iyi.

el sótano; sí, estás en el sótano de la casa paterna, tú eres un niño, sólo has soñado que eras un adulto, un viejo y asqueroso vigilante en París, pero eres un niño y estás en el sótano de la casa paterna (...)

Y lo olía con más exactitud de la que muchos lo veían, ya que lo percibía en su interior y por ello de manera más intensa: como la esencia, el espíritu de algo pasado que no sufre la perturbación de los atributos habituales del presente, como el ruido, la algarabía, el repugnante hacinamiento de los hombres.

All these grotesque incongruities between the richness of the world perceivable by smell and the poverty of language were enough for the lad Grenouille to doubt that language made any sense at all;

On the other hand, everyday language soon would prove inadequate for designating all the olfactory notions that he had accumulated within himself. Soon he was no longer smelling mere wood, but kinds of wood: maple wood, oak wood, pinewood, elm wood, pearwood, old, young, rotting, moldering, mossy wood, down to single logs, chips, and splinters.

Ä°nsan bu konuda ne kadar çok ÅŸey bilirse, geçerli tek bir söz bile söyleyebilmesi de o ölçüde zorla??yor.

Quizá faltan unas gotas de limón pensó, pero esto ya era casi frívola glotonería, porque cuando bebía después de cada bocado un pequeño sorbo de vino tinto de la botella y se lo paseaba por la lengua y entre los dientes, el regusto algo metálico del pescado se mezclaba con el fuerte y ácido perfume del vino de un modo tan convincente, que Jonathan estaba seguro de no haber comido en toda su vida mejor que ahora, en este momento.

Ka një fuqi bindëse aroma, e cila është më e madhe sesa fjalët, sesa pamja e jashtme, sesa ndjenja e dëshira. Fuqia bindëse e aromës nuk kundërshtohet dot, ajo futet brenda nesh ashtu si ajri në mushkëritë tona; ajo na mbush, na ngop plotësisht; kundër saj nuk ekziston asnjë mjet.

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.

L'ignorance n'a rien de honteux, la plupart des hommes voient en elle le bonheur. Et, de fait, elle est le seul bonheur possible en ce monde.

Der Kontrabaß ist das scheußlichste, plumpeste, uneleganteste Instrument, das je erfunden wurde. Ein Waldschrat von Instrument.

And yet they were alike, so Jonathan thought, the sphinx and the guard, for the power of both was not instrumental, it was symbolic.

Por un momento, durante unos segundos, durante toda una eternidad, según se le antojó a él, el tiempo se dobló o desapareció por completo, porque ya no sabía si ahora era ahora y aquí era aquí, o ahora era entonces y aquí era allí

Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

Mrs. Porter was fat, and her breath smelled like burnt newspapers.