Quotes About Stoicism

Never complain and never explain.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

Usually I am not overexcited about hits or down in the dumps for flops. I maintain a degree of equilibrium.

I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.

Patient endurance is the supreme austerity.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

Todos los tipos que había allí tenían el mismo aspecto, como si sus vidas fueran tan duras que habían borrado sus rasgos individuales

Emma took everything in stride. Whether this was a sign of intelligence or of perfect indifference, Caroline could not fathom.

endured the pain expressionlessly

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

I have learned to not worry about things I can't control.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

a person I have come to accept in the way of things here, which, if they can't be changed, they must be endured.

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.