Vladimir Nabokov Cool & famous Quotes by

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

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• Love

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

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• Life

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

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• Writing

I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness

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• Time

Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.

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• Love

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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• Writing

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

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• Life

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

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• Life

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

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• Life

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

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• Life

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

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• Love

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

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• Love

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

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• Writing