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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Total quotes: 153
“I simply want to tell you that somehow I can’t imagine life without you. I love you, I want you, I need you unbearably.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
Tagged: Vladimir + Vera, Love Quotes For Her, Desire
“A subtle sport can be derived from constantly fighting temptation while constantly dreaming of somehow, sometime, somewhere, yielding to it.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Tagged: Temptation, Desire
“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Expression of Love, Romantic Comedies, Love and Affection
“We can know the time, we can know a time. We can never know Time. Our senses are simply not meant to perceive it.”
— Ada Veen, Ada
Tagged: Time, Duration, The Stopgap
“Rowdies are never revolutionary, they are always reactionary. It is among the young that the greatest conformists and Philistines are found, e.g., the hippies with their group beards and group protests.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: Revolution, Understanding The reactionary
“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Love, parting, separation, seeing each other again, meeting someday, Hopelessly In Love
“I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: When Words Fail, My Philosophy, The Secret Of Our Secret States, Beyond Language, Transcendental, Philosophical, And Something Else
“I loved, love, and shall love only you. I implore you and love you with everlasting pain and passion, my darling.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Tagged: How To Say I Love You, Love, Love Quotes For Her
“When you laugh, I want to transform the entire world so it will mirror you.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Gods(The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov)
Tagged: Laughter, Love, deeply in love, sweet, Sexts, Cute Things To Say To Her, Cute Things to Say
“I think it is all a matter of love: the
more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov's interview. (02) BBC Television[1962]
Tagged: Love, Loving, loving a memory, Memories, Experience, Life
“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
Tagged: Nostalgia, Longing, Strange Land, Place, unknown, Spring, finding
“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Thinking, Pessimism, Negativity, Anxiety
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Tagged: Loneliness, Sadness, Human Emotions
“Her brilliance, her genius. Of course, she had changed in four years, but he, too, had changed, by concurrent stages, so that their brains and senses stayed attuned and were to stay thus always, through all separations.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: Forever Together, Wavelengths, Changing But Still The Same
“And I have still other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Memories, Pain, painful memories, Past
“I want you to come live with me, and die with me, and everything with me.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Love, Desire, Forever
“Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: beauty, Woman
“You turn my life into something light, amazing, rainbowed— you put a glint of happiness on everything.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
Tagged: Love, romance, Perfect Lines, Love In One Sentence
“The calendar says I had known him only for a few months but there exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time, independent of rotating, malicious music.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (Vintage International)
Tagged: Friendship, Time Warps, Time, Subjective Time
“The first creatures on earth to become aware of time were also the first creatures to smile.”
— Vladimir Nabokov,
Tagged: Time, History, Smile, Smiles
“Solitude was corrupting me.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Solitude, Loneliness, Alone, solitary, Isolation
“There is nothing softer than your heart.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
Tagged: Symbolism, heart
“Years of secret sufferings had taught me superhuman self-control.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: secret sufferings, Self-Control, self awareness, Self Care, self, Pain, Life
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita(Vintage International)
Tagged: first lines of books, Alliteration Examples
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Tagged: Ocean, Seeing The Big Picture, Why Macro Perspectives Are Useful, Focus Means Something Else Is Out of Focus, Big Picture
“Words without experience are meaningless.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: street smarts, Experience Is Learning, Firsthand Experience, Book Smarts Mean Nothing
“He never spoke to her. He loved her madly.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: Love, Distance, Imagined Love, Imagined Maidens, The Beatrice Effect, Image As Reality
“The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it becomes.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Love, Memory, Past
“What are eyes anyway? Two holes in the mask of life.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: Eyes
“See you soon my strange joy, my tender night.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
Tagged: Vladimir + Vera
“Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: Memory, Time, Nostalgia
“We touch in silhouette.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: Shadow of Memory
“Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Meaning Of Life, Existence
“I’d like to taste the inside of your mouth.”
— Van Veen, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: Kissing, Kisses, Desire
“Bless the starling and damn the Stardust!”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: What It Feels Like To Wake Up From A Great Dream, Waking Up From Good Dreams
“It is astounding how little the ordinary person notices butterflies.”
— Vladimir Nabokov,
Tagged: Butterflies, The Beauty Flies By, Seeing Seeing
“A good and strong memory is a tower in the mist.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Tagged: Metaphors, Memory, How To Describe A Lasting And Powerful Memory
“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night— every night, every night— the moment I feigned sleep.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Vintage International)
Tagged: Love, Life, travel, Sadness, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Her gaiety, too, was like her mother's—a singular unobtrusive gaiety. It was just a quiet delight in one's own existence with a faint note of humorous surprise at being alive at all—yes, that was the tenor of it: mortal gaiety.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
Tagged: Lack of Gravity, Mortal Gaiety, Simple
“I absolutely cannot be any longer without you — this half-existence, quarter-existence — is starting to get too much for me — and without the air which comes from you I can neither think nor write— I can’t do anything.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Tumblr Quotes
Tagged: ThoughtCatalogTumblr
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