823 Quotes by Umberto Eco

You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.