Quotes About Stoicism

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

This is the reason we cannot complain of life; it keeps no one against his wll.

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

Philippa knew why her mother had kept everything bottled up inside. It was the innate compulsion some people—particularly women?—felt not to make a fuss, not to display their suffering and humiliation to the whole world or even to those who are nearest and dearest to them.

But she would not allow her thoughts to show on her face. She kept her lips tightly pressed together and her expression impassive.

Ability to Function Despite Imminent Catastrophe.

During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.

Her face looked as if she knew his worst suffering and it was hers and she wished to bear it like this, coldly, asking no words of mitigation.

His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth.

After a while, he went back to his task; he decided that pain was not a valid reason for stopping.

To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.--Dominique Francon

that archetype is a closed man. Your inner self is forever secretive and unknown—stoic, silent, not revealing of your feelings.

What's the trick? the man asks. The trick is not caring that it hurts.

We fell silent, and I watched him out of the corner of my eye. I realized that I had never heard him talk about what he was feeling. I had never seen him really angry or sad. He seemed to inhabit a world of hard surfaces and well-defined thoughts.

Stoics believed that Logos—reason—was a divine element that infused all of existence

A great principle of moral advancement, on par with Love thy neighbor and All men are created equal, is the one on the bumper sticker: Shit happens.

A great principle of moral advancement, on a par with "Love thy neighbor" and "All men are created equal," is the one on the bumper sticker: "Shit happens.

On the CAT scan, tumors bloomed like flowers against the charcoal desert of his duodenal lining. Into the lore of Dad's legendary stoicism would be added the fact that he spent a year treating metastatic stomach cancer with Tums.

Al margen de su imposibilidad, el concepto de mirar activamente la degradación de la materia, que incluye la de nuestro propio cuerpo, es una saludable terapia estoica que ayuda a aceptar el paso despiadado del tiempo.

El idealista perfecto sería romántico a los veinte años y estoico a los cincuenta; es tan anormal el estoicismo en la juventud como el romanticismo en la edad madura. Lo que al principio enciende su pasión, debe cristalizarse después en suprema dignidad: ésa es la lógica de su temperamento.

'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

GRIMALKING DOES NOT CRY