Quotes About Stoicism

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

Não ignoro que muitos outros não olham estas espécies de desgraças senão como uma simples perda de um bem, e que assim pensando eles se julgam grandes homens e homens sábios. De minha parte, não sei se são tão grandes e tão sábios como o imaginam, mas sei bem que não são homens.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

One of the most important truths about the war, as indeed about all human affairs, is that people can interpret what happens to them only in the context of their own experiences. . . . The fact that the plight of other people was worse than one's own did little to promote personal stoicism.

I'm the type of person, I don't like to make a big deal out of problems.

One of the big things is I try not to worry about things I can't control.

I can play with pain. It doesn't bother me.

I don't bother about anything, I don't let anything affect me.

If you put a brick on my head and break it, I will be fine.

I'm a real man. I can suffer.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

I am kind of a cold guy and I don't suffer much because of the past.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Suffering does not change its face.

FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?

Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Everyone thinks that. It's one of those little secrets we keep from each other. Show me a serious man and I'll show you a man who has never wept. Show me a madman and I'll show you a man who dried his tears a long time ago. Go ahead." "I

No, child. I'm old enough and cold enough; the hottest day won't thaw me

As a solid mass of rock Is not moved by the wind, So a sage is not moved by praise and blame.

Yossarian marveled that children could suffer such barbaric sacrifice without evincing the slightest hint of fear or pain. He took for granted that they did submit so stoically. If not, he reasoned, the custom would certainly have died, for no craving for wealth or immortality could be so great, he felt, as to subsist on the sorrow of children.

One crucial distinction between major depression and chronic depression is that, in the latter, one largely ceases to howl in protest that the world is hard or painful. Rather, one becomes accustomed to it, expecting such hardship and greeting it with, at best, a stoic determination.