Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Reality, Men, Sight

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.402, Vintage

• I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Reality, Deny, Knows

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

• Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Reality, Flying

• Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1979). “Five novels”

• A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Summer, Memories, Reality

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”, p.57, Penguin UK

• Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Reality, Play, World

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Look at the Harlequins!”, Penguin UK

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