Scent Quotes

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

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.

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

I plot my ascent daily.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning.