More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
The future is but the obsolete in reverse.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.
I don't think in any language. I think in images.
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
