May Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

— Vladimir Nabokov

And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

— Vladimir Nabokov

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully…

— Vladimir Nabokov

…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I could also distinguish the glint of a special puddle (the one Krug had somehow perceived through the layer of his own…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being -…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades…

— Vladimir Nabokov

- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a…

— Vladimir Nabokov