Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. These inspirational Vladimir Nabokov Quotes will change your life.
Best Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
- “Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Genius is finding the invisible link between things.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “And the rest is rust and stardust.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Which arrow flies forever? The arrow that has hit its mark.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.” – Vladimir Nabokov
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“Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Perhaps, somewhere, someday, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “There is an old American saying ‘He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.” – Vladimir Nabokov
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“I don’t think in any language. I think in images.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Solitude is the playfield of Satan.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “We think not in words but in shadows of words.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Life is a message scribbled in the dark.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I confess, I do not believe in time.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Let all of life be an unfettered howl.” – Vladimir Nabokov
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“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Words without experience are meaningless.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Caress the detail, the divine detail.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Dear Jesus, do something.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don’t really exist if you don’t.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?” – Vladimir Nabokov
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“The future is but the obsolete in reverse.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “The square root of I is I.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “… my mind lay limp in an empty world.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Don’t touch me; I’ll die if you touch me.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.” – Vladimir Nabokov
