Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Betrayal, Sleep, Humanity

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

• We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night — every night, every night — the moment I feigned sleep.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Country, Dog, Book

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.253, Vintage

• He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

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