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Dreadful Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now…
- Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my…
- …my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton…
- You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
- After the dreadful frustrationsFreudians have experienced with my other books, I am sure they will refrain from inflicting upon Waltz a sublimation of the push-button…
More Dreadful Quotes
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and… — James A. Baldwin
- Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. — Josh Billings
- I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating. — Ray Bradbury
- I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. — A. S. Byatt
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back… — Albert Camus
- Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. — Albert Camus
- After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk… — Albert Camus
- I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with… — Donald Cargill
- Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. — Thomas Carlyle
- ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to… — Seraphim of Sarov