Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Tears, Dying, Action

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.373, Vintage

• You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dying, Knows

  Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.284, Vintage

• The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Death, Rocks, Two

  Speak, Memory (1951) ch. 1

• Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Believe, Destiny, Sky

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.136, Vintage

• My Lolita remarked: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own"; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Twilight, Garden, Adorable

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.377, Vintage

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