I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment … - Vladimir Nabokov

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

Vladimir Nabokov

I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life.

Bad, Dream, Dreams, People, Real, Torment

Same Author Quotes

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

Defiance, Desire, Desires, World, Worlds

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Angel, Mind, Shooting, Smoke, Stars

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Irrational, Mysteries, Mystery, Rational, Reason

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

Advantage, Disadvantage, Disadvantages, Took

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Love, Sight, Valentines Day

Similar Quotes

Niall Williams

The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That other thing you were calling blue is some other colour, it’s not blue. This, this is blue. It’s a blue that comes down from the sky into the water so that when you look in the sea you think sky and when you look at the sky you think sea.

Blue, Calling, Down, Marvellous, Sea, Thinking

Isaac Asimov

You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose.

Compounds, Effort, Forever, Long, Nose, Tell

Kristin Scott Thomas

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

Careers, Different, Hard, Having, Two

James Russell Lowell

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Disguise, Flower, Inspirational, Nature, Weed

Kami Garcia