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Nothing Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication…
- Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
- ...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an…
- I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious…
- We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous…
- The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like…
- 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…
- It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to…
- - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?…
- There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being:…
- My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest…
- She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression…
- Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At…
- There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian…
- A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with…
- There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.
- The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for…
- I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever…
- I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
- Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
More Nothing Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong