Scent Quotes - Page 4

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

The perfumer fakes nature by blending different types of materials to reproduce their scent.

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not.

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! my heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.