More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
Words without experience are meaningless.
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.
I don't think in any language. I think in images.
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
