English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Umberto Eco Quotes

Umberto Eco quotes about heart

Italian Novelist, Philosopher January 5, 1932

Umberto Eco quotes in french
Umberto Eco quotes in russian
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that’s abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don’t love someone for your whole life – that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends … But you can hate someone for your whole life – provided he’s always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart. Umberto Eco
The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed. Umberto Eco
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason,..."
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the..."
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. Umberto Eco

Popular Author

Related Authors