The Name Of The Rose Quotes

“ كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و الآن أصبحوا أطفالاً و أقزاماً وليس هذا إلا دليلاً من جملة أدلة أخرى كثيرة تشهد بتعاسة عالم يسير نحو الهرم”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“عندما يخطئ الراعي ينبغي إبعاده عن بقية الرعاة ، ولكن الويل إذا ما أخذت النعاج ترتاب في الرعاة”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Where is all my wisdom, then? I behaved stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order, when I should have known well that there is no order in the universe.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to men.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“I now wonder whether what I felt was the love of friendship, in which like loves like and wants only the other's good, or love of concupiscence, in which one wants one's own good and the lacking wants only what completes it.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“...love can harm the lover when it is excessive.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“أن نحسّ بالإله نوراً، في أشعة الشمس، في الصور التي تعكسها المرايا ، في انتشار الألوان فوق أجزاء المادة المنتظمة”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“[Adso, experiencing a divine allegorical vision] I saw a voluptuous woman, naked and fleshless, gnawed by foul toads, sucked by serpents, coupled with a fat-bellied satyr whose gryphon legs were covered with wiry hairs, howling its own damnation from an obscene throat; and I saw a miser, stiff in the stiffness of death on his sumptuously columned bed, now helpless prey of a cohort of demons, one of whom tore from the dying man's mouth his soul in the form of an infant (alas, never to be again born to eternal life); and I saw a proud man with a devil clinging to his shoulders and thrusting his claws into the man's eyes, while two gluttons tore each other apart in a repulsive hand-to-hand struggle, and other creatures as well, goat head and lion fur, panther's jaws, all prisoners in a forest of flames whose searing breath I could almost feel.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“In the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and the word was God”
― Umberto Eco

“I suffered from an absence, though I was happy with the many ghosts of a presence.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“...and it is characteristic of the young to become bound to an older and wiser man not only by the spell of his words and the sharpness of his mind, but also by the superficial form of his body, which proves very dear, like the figure of a father, whose gestures we study and whose frowns, whose smile we observe—without a shadow of lust to pollute this form (perhaps the only that is truly pure) of corporal love.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose