Umberto Eco Quotes

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She's unable to find her way forward or out because she can't see the whole picture.

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

We only know how to lose and be lost.