“How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“He fell in love with his golem, found it a source of consolation. Life” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Do not laugh too much at your fellows. Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The world's a nightmare, my love. I'd like to get off, but they tell me we can't, we're on an express train.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Not that he felt any particular love for himself, but his dislike of others induced him to make the best of his… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“INTERVIEWER Do you believe in God? ECO Why does one love a certain person one day and discover the next day that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...I am not I who thinks,but I am the Void, or extension, that thinks me. And so this composite is an accident,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I would like to tell about war and friendship among the various parts of the body, the arms that do battle with… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I look a the Moon, and I imagine that those darker spots are caverns, cities, islands, and the places that shine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...and it is characteristic of the young to become bound to an older and wiser man not only by the spell of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
