Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Italian novelist & semiotician (1932 - )


Umberto Eco -
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco - Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco - Travels in Hyperreality
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco - on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
- I felt like poisoning a monk.