Umberto Eco Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

  Umberto Eco

  Beautiful, Eagles, Elephants

• I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

  Umberto Eco

  Good Life, Thinking, Later In Life

  "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, 2008.

• Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

  Umberto Eco

  Life, Years, People

  "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana". Book by Umberto Eco, 2004.

• In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

  Umberto Eco

  War, Fire, Flames

• I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

  Umberto Eco

  Becoming One, Organization, Leader

• The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?

  Umberto Eco

  Eye, Errors, Age

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

  Umberto Eco

  Passion, People, Age

• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  Umberto Eco

  Age, Enlightenment, Reason

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