Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Russia, Novelist
April 22, 1899 – July, 2, 1977.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April 1899 – 2 July 1977) was a Russian-born novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.

Also known as Poet, Translator, Entomologist

I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.

Vladimir Nabokov
We think not in words but in shadows of words.

Vladimir Nabokov
- Thinking
- Shadow

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Vladimir Nabokov
- Time
- Believe