Time Quotes by Umberto Eco

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic…

— Umberto Eco

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about…

— Umberto Eco

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

— Umberto Eco

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great…

— Umberto Eco

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

— Umberto Eco

There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we…

— Umberto Eco

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

— Umberto Eco

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a…

— Umberto Eco

There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As…

— Umberto Eco

“Jacopo Belbo didn't understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all…

— Umberto Eco

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because…

— Umberto Eco

Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy…

— Umberto Eco

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the…

— Umberto Eco

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the…

— Umberto Eco

“There comes a time when one has to make up one’s mind and choose which side one is on. The catoptric universe…

— Umberto Eco

“Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there…

— Umberto Eco

“What am I?...I say so inasmuch as I am the memory of all my past moments, the sum of everything I remember.…

— Umberto Eco

“Ok now--I don't read "all the time." Remember, that these ratings are over quite a while. I'll try to put in some…

— Umberto Eco

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…

— Umberto Eco

“But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind…

— Umberto Eco

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…

— Umberto Eco

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being…

— Umberto Eco

We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger…

— Umberto Eco

“...It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay…

— Umberto Eco

“I was dozing, and the clock woke me. I didn’t hear the first few chimes distinctly, that is to say, I didn’t…

— Umberto Eco

“I transcribe my text with no concern for timeliness. In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a…

— Umberto Eco

“I stood back up and looked down at my feces. A lovely snail-shell architecture, still steaming. Borromini. My bowels must be in…

— Umberto Eco

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often…

— Umberto Eco

“Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.”

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It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...

— Umberto Eco

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach…

— Umberto Eco

“...living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy…

— Umberto Eco

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there…

— Umberto Eco

“Who among us is living in the past? You, who would bestow the horrors of the toiling industrial age upon this country,…

— Umberto Eco

“Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all…

— Umberto Eco

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old,…

— Umberto Eco

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a…

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“It’s true,” Benno said, smiling for the first time, his face growing almost radiant. “We live for books. A sweet mission in…

— Umberto Eco

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can…

— Umberto Eco