Umberto Eco Quotes

It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

—Nadie nos exige que sepamos, Adso. Hay que saber, eso es todo, aun a riesgo de equivocarse.

What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?

Aspirar a algo que no tendrás jamás, ¿es ésta la agudeza del más generoso entre los deseos?

We usually believe that the tamer is attacked by the lion and that the tamer stops his attack by raising his whip or firing a blank. Wrong: the lion was fed and sedated before it entered the cage and...

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.

But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to be)? Why have I not been favored like others who are less deserving? No one believes their misfortun...

Signora, there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart….

Mas talvez naquele momento ele não tenha sido capaz de nenhum cálculo,o grito que lhe saiu da boca era o grito de sua alma e nele e com ele descarregava anos de longos e secretos remorsos.Ou seja,após...

To survive, you must tell stories.

Do not expect too much of the end of the world. —Stanisław J. Lec, Aforyzmy. Fraszki, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977, Myśli nieuczesane

Do not fear the darkness; it does not threaten, but protects us.

If you can speak of a center in a city whose tongues of land stretch through hills and lick the sea. Seen

Eight, the number of perfection for every tetragon; four, the number of the Gospels; five, the number of the zones of the world; seven, the number of the gifts of the Holy Ghost.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

إنّ الهواتفَ الجوَّالة لا يمكنها أن تدوم ، أوّلًا ، لأنّها تكلِّف ثروة ولا يقدر عليها إلا القليلون. وَ ثانيًا ، سيكتشف الناس بعد قليل أنّه ليس من الضروري حقًّا الاتصال بكلّ الناس وَ في كلّ وقت ، و سيف...

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. Hence the Jews. Divine providence has given them to us, and so, by God, let us use them, and pray there’s alwa...