Inspiring Quotes and Iconic Works by Vladimir Nabokov

All religions are based on obsolete term... - Insights from Vladimir Nabokov

The quotes and works of Vladimir Nabokov delve into themes of life, love, friendship, and success. Their words provide profound insights and inspiration, encouraging readers to reflect and find meaning in their own lives. Whether you're seeking motivation or exploring timeless wisdom, Vladimir Nabokov's words offer a source of guidance and enlightenment.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Faith #Philosophy #Philosophy of religion #Religion

All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Absurdity #Humor #Irony

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Humbert humbert #Love

Leave your incidental Dick.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Funny #Innuendo #Lolita #Wordplay

I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Dolores haze #Girl #Lolita

I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Lust #Obsessed #Obsession #Obsessions

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Writing #Writing advice

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Erotic #Humorous #Insprirational

And the rest is rust and stardust.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Air #Art #Mother #Nabokov

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Lies #Life #Relationship

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Nature #Simple minds

Dear Jesus, do something.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Prayer

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Ego #Hubris #Humble #Modesty

I don't think in any language. I think in images.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

You have to be an artist and a madman...
Vladimir Nabokov
#Inspirational #Life #Philosophy #Truth of life

His heart missed a beat and never regretted the lovely loss.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Heart #Loss #Love #Regret

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Enjoyment #Psychology #Therapy

I had possessed her - and she never knew it.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Desire #Lust #Obsession

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Lolita #Mind #Poison #Poisoning

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Exist #Imagine #Need #Reader

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Vladimir Nabokov
#Two #Light #Darkness

Quotes and Iconic Works by Vladimir Nabokov

All religions are based on obsolete term... - Insights from Vladimir Nabokov