Umberto Eco Quotes

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

I live a very real life.

You are.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

My life is real.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Each child is made neurotic by the parents, by the society; and we know that we are doing it, and we know that others have done the same to us. Stop doing it to yourself and stop doing it to others. Become alert. Just be real. I emphasize reality more than truth. Because truth has been used by the anti-life people so much, it has wrong associations. Be real. If you are real, one thing will start disappearing from your heart, and that is guilt.

The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

I'm not on the stage going, 'Look at me! I'm amazing!' I accept my vulnerability, don't pretend I'm something I'm not. I don't want to come across as fake.