Quotes About Stoicism

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her.

If the next blood to be spilled here was his, he would bear it as a samurai should. For death, he reminded himself, comes to all. The only way to meet it is with courage. ~ Seikei

Victimhood rather than stoicism or heroism has become something eagerly publicized, even sought after, in our culture. To be a victim is in some way to have won, or at least to have got a head start in the great oppression race of life.

It was not that these men were cold-blooded or hard-hearted: death was something they had to take in their stride. Dwelling on it would probably drive a man mad

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

Esbandalhados nós estávamos, escatimados naquela esfrega. Esmorecidos é que não. Nenhum se lastimava, filhos do dia, acho mesmo que ninguém se dizia de dar por assim. Jagunço é isso. Jagunço não se escabrêia com perda nem derrota — quase que tudo para ele é o igual. Nunca vi. Pra ele a vida já está assentada: comer, beber, apreciar mulher, brigar, e o fim final.

I learnt a long time back to accept whatever comes my way. Best savor the good and bear up under the bad. There ain't no changin' none of it.

Your only problem is that you can't put up with things. But there are certain things you just have to put up with, to endure. Because eventually they'll pass.

Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.

The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.

Why should you feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.

Dare death with me. Death stands by you anyway.