Umberto Eco Quotes about Feelings

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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Umberto Eco

Feelings, Matter, Language

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Umberto Eco

Opposites, Feelings, Perception

Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.

Umberto Eco

Grief, Joy, Feelings

Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.458, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Umberto Eco

Racism, Feelings, Racist

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

Umberto Eco

Book, Land, Feelings

Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt