More from Umberto Eco
- Absence is to love as wind to fire; it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
- For every feared thing there is an opposing hope that encourages us.
- Accept loss forever
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Last reviewed 2026-07-10