Quotes About Stoicism

I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid.

Nothing is more repulsive to me than the literary man who must immediately display every emotion and every experience to its best advantage and stick it on paper.

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Epictetus, a first-century Stoic philosopher, who said, "Never, when asked one's country, answer, 'I am Athenian or Corinthian,' but 'I am a citizen of the world.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

Je ne les ai pas ! répondit Rodolphe avec ce calme parfait dont se recouvrent comme d'un bouclier les colères résignées.

Death need not be sad, it should be a matter of indifference.

Happy indeed are those to whom nature has given a thick skin and the armour of stoicism!

Äsch, det är väl bara att banka ihop några jävla brädor, sa Bjartur.

Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man.

Being this handsome. It is not easy, you realize.' 'And yet you suffer without complaint.

There was an awkwardness to him, a stoicism that most people, with their need for appearances and fake smiles, found off-putting. Shane couldn't handle small talk or the excess bullshittery of modern society. When

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

Shakespeare has Julius Caesar reflect that: Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

A man who doesn't reel on receipt of his death-warrant may yet break down when he has had time to think it over.

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

I thought at the time that it was noble to bear the ills one had silently. But not so silently that others didn't know one was bearing them.

Pull himself together? This was a man who looked permanently cemented together.

He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across the palace, and they'd ignored it. If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, Eddisian soldiers on the move. He'd meant to deceive them, and he'd succeeded. It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

What happened to your face? she asked. It fell on a fist. He shrugged. That happens a lot? Enough.