Lolita Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“As palavras sem a experiência não teriam qualquer significado.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

…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…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Lolita: Oh my Carmen, my little Carmen… Humbert: Charmin’ Carmen. Started garglin’ Lolita: I remember those sultry nights Humbert: Those pre-raphaelites Lolita: No, come…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee.…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The softness and fragility of baby animals caused us the same intense pain. She wanted to be a nurse in some famished Asiatic country;…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Enchia-me o peito uma tempestade de soluços.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What I heard was but the melody of children at play, nothing but that, and so limpid was the air that within this vapor…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“A moment later I heard my sweetheart running up the stairs. My heart expanded with such force that it almost blotted me out. I…

— Vladimir Nabokov

My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Rope-skipping, hopscotch. That old woman in black who sat down next to me on my bench, on my rack of joy (a nymphet was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“She was all rose and honey.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I also know that the shock of Annabel's death consolidated the frustration of that nightmare summer, made of it a permanent obstacle to any…

— Vladimir Nabokov