Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Nostalgia

Quotes about: Nostalgia

• Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Spiritual, Sadness, Sick

• Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Strong, Spring, Land

  Vladimir Nabokov (1970). “Mary: A Novel”, Vintage Books

• I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Animal, Numbers, Choices

• The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Years, Childhood, Sorrow

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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