Quotes About Stoicism

I'm used to meanness. It doesn't matter to me.

I don't want sadness or happiness to affect my life.

I can handle pain.

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

It's not that the worm forgives the plough; it gives it no mind. (Pain occurs, in passing.) (lines 37-39 in the poem 'Fantasia on a Theme from IKEA')

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

It is not things that trouble us," as Epictetus said, "but our judgment about things

Podríamos decir, además, que hay en la humanidad un estoicismo universal, quiero decir con ello que la actitud que llamamos «estoica» es una de las posibilidades permanentes y fundamentales del ser humano, cuando busca la sabiduría.

Entre el estoicismo y Nietzsche se abre un abismo. Mientras que el «sí» estoico es consentimiento a la racionalidad del mundo, la afirmación dionisíaca de la existencia de la que habla Nietzsche es un «sí» dado a la irracionalidad, a la crueldad ciega de la vida, a la voluntad de poder más allá del bien y del mal

Look, I am not really that sensitive of a guy. I don't get hurt by a lot of things.

I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

The problem is that I've never been a player who complained or let people know how bad things were.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

The tourists who come to visit may be disappointed if they can't see the mountain clearly, but it's all the same to the mountain--seen or unseen, in sun or clouds, broiling or frigid, it just sits, being itself.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.

On February 14, I received a telegram from Buenos Aires urging me to return home immediately; my father was not at all well. God forgive me, but the prestige of being the recipient of an urgent telegram, the desire to communicate to all of Fray Bentos the contradiction between the negative form of the news and the absoluteness of the adverbial phrase, the temptation to dramatize my grief by feigning a virile stoicism-all this perhaps distracted me from any possibility of real pain.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

I have learnt that patience is important: patience when you bowl and also in how you handle life.

It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed. You'll always be late for the previous train, and always on time for the next.