You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades o…

- Vladimir Nabokov

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

- Vladimir Nabokov

The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

- Vladimir Nabokov

...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe …

- Vladimir Nabokov