Umberto Eco Quotes

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

A single fantasy can transform a million realities.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

Reality doesn't interest me.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Movies are different from real life.