Life is a great surprise.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” · From the poem that opens the novel; the next line says he does not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.

More Life Quotes

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

The Bible · The source reads: “Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes; vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas. Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, and everything is vanity.” · Ecclesiastes 1:2. The familiar King James wording; the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gives the Book of Common Prayer psalter.

All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

The Bible · 1 Peter 1:24

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

The Bible · James 4:14

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