# The Pigeon

- Author: [Patrick Süskind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-suskind.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon

## Quotes

> Whatever came within his field of vision Jonathan coated with the vile patina of his hate.

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon/whatever-came-within.md)

> If this one, most essential freedom was taken from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon/if-this-one.md)

> No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitome of chaos and anarchy.

p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon/no-human-being.md)

> He had found his way to sphinxlike imperturbability.

p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon/he-had-found.md)

> A guard was like a sphinx. He functioned not by some deed, but rather by his mere bodily presence.

p. 49 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon/a-guard-was.md)

> With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and had to close his eyes for a second to get out of it.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon/with-one-glance.md)

> The horrible, oppressive, vaporous, pigeon blue-gray sky.

p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon/the-horrible-oppressive.md)

> He felt only the sentiment that is generally termed tolerance: a very lukewarm emotional stew of disgust, contempt, and sympathy.

p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon/he-felt-only.md)