Quotes About Stoicism

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Chin up, don't smile, don't cry, don't fall, walk.

At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoic­ism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.

we shouldn't be surprised if this kind of stoicism is of no interest whatsoever to the news, for it has sound commercial incentives for overemphasizing our vulnerability.

Still, for all that everybody, while not happy, is not unhappy about it. And so they go on.

Hux refused to pace, regarding it as a waste of energy.

In heaven's name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me!

I've been dog rough, half blind and barking mad for years but you don't catch me going on about it.

Between astonishment and grief, I was tearless

1. If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.8

whether it concerns the things which are in our control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

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.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Keep calm and carry on.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.