Vladimir Nabokov: Trending quotes (page 5)

“My God died young. Theolatry i found
Degrading, and its premises, unsound.
No free man needs God; but was I free?”

“There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.”

“How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!”

“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”

“Look at this tangle of thorns.”

“What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.”

“All religions are based on obsolete terminology.”

“do what only a true artist can do… pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation”

“I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.”

“In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.”

“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”

“Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”

“There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.”

“Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?”

“There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.”

“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”

“The square root of I is I.”

“I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.”

“I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.”