823 Quotes by Umberto Eco

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

The followers must feel besieged.

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.