Quotes About Stoicism

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

Be superior to pleasure.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

He had been contemptuous of those who wrecked. You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care. All right. Now he would not care for death. One thing he had always dreaded was the pain. He could stand pain as well as any man, until it went on too long, and wore him out, but here he had something that had hurt frightfully and just when he had felt it breaking him, the pain had stopped.

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

And pain does not matter to a man.

It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man." He

you are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering.

At the sting in her eyes, she remembered for him that there must be no tears in his.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin

Well, we're afeared. And what of it? Do we sit down and weep and tremble? Life must go on. And what will be, will be. What is destined can't be avoided, in any case.

For they themselves were still beautiful, designed for a more beautiful life than the one in which they found themselves becalmed. She saw that they were more stoical, had more depth, than she had ever perceived.

That was his father's way. Things he couldn't change he made the best of. He said there was no point in taking on the world. He'd never win.

We weren't that sort of family. We just got on with things.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

When I have difficulties, I will not complain.

I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.

I think sometimes people expect people to burst into tears. But, I think sometimes emotion, as I've seen, shock, can have a lot of different manifestations. Sometimes it's tears and sometimes it's just complete stoicism.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.