Umberto Eco Quotes

To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life.

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

Love is the very essence of life.

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.

If you need one more reason, I love you.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

Love is the salt of life.

It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

As goes love so goes life.

Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.

Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.

You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.