"We like lists because we don't want to…" — Umberto Eco

"We like lists because we don't want to die."

— Umberto Eco

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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of…
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third…
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…

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More Die Quotes

This quote is filed under Die Quotes, one of 9,896 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you… — Mary Kay Ash
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria. — Bashar al-Assad
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular… — Charles Babbage
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as… — Francis Bacon
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to… — Joan Baez
When I die I want to go to Vogue. — David Bailey
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. — Honore de Balzac

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