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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Total quotes: 93
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“And there were times when I knew how you felt and it was hell to know it.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, René Magritte: Selected Writings
Tagged: Knowledge, know, Feel, Feelings, Hell, Emotion
“All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add...”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Love, Love & Relationships, Passionate Love, In love
“An author’s fondest dream is to turn the reader into a spectator; is this ever attained?”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Despair
Tagged: Authorship, What Writers Dream Of Us, Writers and Reader Relationships
“Learn to distinguish banality. Remember that mediocrity thrives on 'ideas.'”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: Too Much Thought, The World of Ideas
“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Tagged: Motivational, Existence
“Reader must understand that in the possession and thralldom of a nymphet the enchanted traveler stands, as it were, beyond happiness.”
— Humbert Humbert, Lolita
Tagged: Sexual/Love Transcendence
“Banks of mist still crossed the blue of the mountains beyond the lake, but here and there a peak was tipped with ocher under the cloudless turquoise of the sky.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Tagged: Blue, Clear Skies
“Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only its own self to copy.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, The Art of Fiction No. 40
Tagged: Same Story, Letting Your Story Flow, Over and Over Again
“I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov's interview. (10) Time[1969]
Tagged: Insanity, Balancing Your Craziness
“By all means place the ‘how’ above the ‘what’ but do not let it be confused with the ‘so what.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: Problem Solving, Understanding What Is Important, Critical Analysis, Prioritizing
“A definite picture that he knew he had never seen in reality— remained within him more real than any actual memory.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Tagged: Memory, How Memory Works, Never Happened But Still Real, Imagination, Lies as Truth
“I felt that one wrong or misplaced word would be fatal, you would simply turn away, as you did, and walk off again, and again, and again.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Tagged: Words As Destiny Drivers, Finding The Right Words
“Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only its own self to copy.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: Artistic originality, Creativity
“If we want life’s sundial to show its hand, we must always remember that the strength, the dignity, the delight of man is to spite and despise the shadows and stars that hide their secrets from us.”
— Van Veen, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: Shadows and Light
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