Home / Quotes / Quote by Umberto Eco

Quote by Umberto Eco

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

Quote by Umberto Eco

Author

Italian essayist, scholar, and critic. Umberto Eco is renowned for his unique literary style and profound academic background. His works integrate history, philosophy, literature, and semiotics, with his most famous novel being 'The Name of the Rose'. more

You May Also Like

“It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.”

World Long Home House Journey Coming Home Awkward Long Journey

Author:Umberto Eco

“You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.”

Said Enough Lasts Forget Smart Forgotten Athletic Love Someone

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.”

Men World Running Feet Men And Women Consequence Rivers Bridges Looking Back Crossings Loose Change

Book:The Club Dumas: A Novel

Source: The Club Dumas: A Novel

“I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.”

Used Three Week Minutes Ten Nervous Gigs Manageable

Author:Jo Brand

“You’ve just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don’t you think? And don’t you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?”

Thinking Ends Fighting Pay Pride Needed Paid

Book:The Club Dumas: A Novel

Source: The Club Dumas: A Novel

“Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.”

Way Understood Devil

Book:The Club Dumas

Source: The Club Dumas

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”

Men Book Women Written Naked Witch Witchcraft Omen Good Omens

Author:Neil Gaiman

“What’s this here,” he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?” Oh, we have to have them,” said Newt, “We burn them.” Say what?” We burn them.” The guard’s face broadened into a grin. And they’d told him England was soft. “Right on!” he said”

Giving Said Faces England Newts

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Nothin’ wrong with witchfinding. I’d like to be a witchfinder. It’s just, well, you’ve got to take it in turns. Today we’ll go out witchfinding, an’ tomorrow we could hide, an’ it’d be the witches’ turn to find US.”

Wells Today Turns Tomorrow Witch

Author:Neil Gaiman

“He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”

People Ifs Made Would Be Fun Opinion Trouble Eating Fruit Silly Apples Adam

Author:Neil Gaiman