Happiness Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

The lost glove is happy.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Certain tight parentheses have been opened and allowed to spill their still active contents.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Some people-and I am one of them-hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I swear I am happy. I have realized that the only happiness in this world is to observe, to spy, to watch,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche…

— Vladimir Nabokov

...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Then, after all the excitement, I shall experience a certain satiation of suffering--perhaps on the mountain pass to a kind of happiness…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Next morning, his nose still in the dreambag of a deep pillow contributed to his otherwise austere bed by sweet Blanche (with…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“...I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It is desirable that the inmate should not have at all, or if he does, should immediately himself suppress nocturnal dreams whose…

— Vladimir Nabokov

There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“How much happier the wide-awake indolents, the monarchs among men, the rich monstrous brains deriving intense enjoyment and rapturous pangs from the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Where is the happiness, the sunshine, where are those thick skittles of wood which crashed and bounced so nicely, where is my…

— Vladimir Nabokov