Smell Quotes

• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Food, Years

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  You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  Walter Hagen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  The Walter Hagen Story ch. 32 (1956)

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• Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mute

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.20, Vintage

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• Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Nature, Past, Scent

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• Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

  Caryl Rivers

  Machines, Time Machine, Humans

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

  Helen Keller

  Angel, Fallen, Senses

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  Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

  Henry Rollins

  Life, Lonely, Depressing

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• To smell, though well, is to stink.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stink, Perfume, Wells

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.550, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, Nature, Memories

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

  Haruki Murakami

  Alive, Variety, Ifs

  "1Q84". Book by Haruki Murakami, April 16, 2010.

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• Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Memories, Imagination, Association

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.75, Reprint Services Corporation

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• To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

  Hugh Jackman

  Coffee, Invention, Made

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• Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

  Nancy Farmer

  Air, Wind, Sky

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• The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Character, Faithful, Counsellors

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.65, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Vision, Scent

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.5, Vintage

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• The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

  Lewis Thomas

  Memories, Thinking, Perception

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Summer, Beach

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they hold it up to the camera, 'Well, here it is. You can't have any. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Goodbye, Cameras

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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

  Ben Hogan

  Inspirational, Sports, Friday

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• Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

  Ashley Smith

  Life, Beauty, Dream

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• The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Memories, Mind, Photograph

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

  Heinrich Heine

  Nature, Flower, Feelings

  Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland (1995). “The Harz journey”, Marsilio Pub

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• We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

  Cary Grant

  Should, Enjoy, Wells

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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