Quotes About Stoicism

Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius, or why worry about tomorrow, when your funeral is today. Goodbye.

As if nothing had happened.' 'Well. Nobody knows.

Do you think they're…" "Where they are, how they are, there's no way we can know and no way we can do anything about it. Do what I do." "What?" "Don't think about it.

What is it the Arab sages call death?" Pendergast went on. "The destroyer of all earthly pleasures. And how true it is: old age, sickness, and at last death comes to us all. Some console themselves with religion, others through denial, others through philosophy or mere stoicism.

Never display emotion.

I have learned to save myself useless emotion

Notre stoïcien a dix fois raison : Supprime le jugement, tu supprimes le mal

That law is one and the same for all rational beings; it has nothing to do with local particularity or circumstance. The good man is a citizen of the universe; his relation to all other collectivities, to city, kingdom or empire is secondary and accidental. Stoicism thus invites us to stand against the world of physical and political circumstance at the very same time that it requires us to act in conformity with nature.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

Going with it was Tenley's superpower. Only child of a single dad, she'd learned to roll with almost any situation. The upside was very little ruffled her. The downside was very little ruffled her.

Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.

He had learned long ago that dying was not hard. The harder course was to defy the odds, to endure life's torments stoically.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

I am one of those people that if you are going to say something, just say it. I take it on the chin.

When you're around for as long as I have, nothing surprises you any more.

Nquitia ipsa poena su est. (Publilius

What is, is what must be.

And so, by the end, you have tried soft love and tough love, feelings and reason, truth and lies, promises and threats, hope and stoicism.

This ought to have given him a whole storetank of existential rage, but somehow it didn't;

To be a stoic in an age of self-pity is to be judged standoffish; worse, unfeeling.

he didn't feel pity for Macleod, despite all the humiliations and infirmities visited upon him. These he regarded as inevitabilities; indeed, he nowadays regarded most things that happened as inevitabilities.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.