B > B's Quotes

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“If a violin string could ache, I would be that string.”
― Vladimir Nobokov

“Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”
― vladimir nabokov, Lolita

“I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“My shadow serves as the friend I crave.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”
― Emily Dickinson

“An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I must go in, the fog is rising.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Judge tenderly of me.”
― Emily Dickinson

“To be alive──is Power.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.”
― Emily Dickinson

“open me carefully”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters