Umberto Eco Quotes

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

I have those dreams that you can't put into words.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

I want to say so much more than I have time for.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.