Ricardo Reis Quotes

#1. Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

Alvaro De Campos

#2. One is never alone with a rubber duck.

Douglas Adams

#3. I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

Wallace Stevens

#4. I placidly wait for what I don't know-
My future and the future of everything.
In the end there will only be silence except
Where the waves of the sea bathe nothing.

Fernando Pessoa

#5. Life is made of so many partings welded together

Charles Dickens

#6. There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

William Dean Howells

#7. Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

Ricardo Reis

#8. Wise is he who is satisfied with the spectacle of the world.

Ricardo Reis

#9. You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

Lou Gerstner

#10. He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.

Alvaro De Campos