More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
