Quotes About Stoicism

"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

WELCOME, ONCE AGAIN, to the beautiful Sinclair family. We believe in outdoor exercise. We believe that time heals. We believe, although we will not say so explicitly, in prescription drugs and the cocktail hour. We do not discuss our problems in restaurants. We do not believe in displays of distress. Our upper lips are stiff, and it is possible people are curious about us because we do not show them our hearts. It is possible that we enjoy the way people are curious about us.

there is very little you can change. you need to accept the world as it is

The stoic's maxim, according to which we should submit uncomplainingly to things which do not depend on ourselves, takes into account only external misfortunes, which escape our will. But how to accommodate ourselves to those which come from ourselves? If we are the source of our ills, whom are we to confront? Ourselves? We manage, luckily, to forget that we are the guilty parties, and moreover existence is tolerable only if we daily renew this lie, this act of oblivion.

I've never been much for tears, anyway.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a good courage that which hath befallen thee.

Spartan simplicity must be observed. Nothing will be done merely because it contributes to beauty, convenience, comfort, or prestige.

Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.

was "to try always to master myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world.

Actually, I do have a knack of pulling things off with a straight face, guess it runs in my family.

You have pundits and fans from other teams who will say loads of things and it goes past me. That's life.

I'm not frightened of death.

Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned feeling and a mausoleum of blighted hopes.

Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy.

You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

The main thing, when a sword cuts into one's soul, is to keep a calm gaze, lose no blood, accept the coldness of the sword with the coldness of a stone. By means of the stab, after the stab, become invulnerable.