Umberto Eco Quotes about Heart

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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

Umberto Eco

Heart, Tests, Spirit

Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

Umberto Eco

Love, Heart, Men

Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

Umberto Eco

Heart, Eye, Light