Quotes About Stoicism

The Queen is not supposed to have a favourite or prefer anything. From a very young age, they are taught that if you fall down, you don't make a face; you keep your emotions under control, and you don't let other people know what you're feeling. That's a very different kind of way of thinking from how I was brought up.

I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of the charges against us.

Stop worrying about life, no one survived it.

Never act surprised in a courtroom.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Soldiers have nothing to look forward to, making patience an easy virtue, and sometimes it`s not just a virtue but a contest of indifference.

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

I never expect anything from anybody. I'm a bit Scottish like that - I don't like to be disappointed and let down. I like to take life very slowly.

Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my garden not being finished. (tr. Charles Cotton)

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb.      —Seneca, Hippolytus, act ii. scene 3.] A

The Stoics forbid this emotion to their sages as being base and cowardly.

Epicurus frees his Wise Man from anticipation and worry about the future.4 [B] The most solid of our laws concerning

Love's not the point. We just do what we always do, and we get by.

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.

We shall tell you all in good time. We are men and are able to bear

Fortunately, I am not of a fainting disposition

dug in, but he seemed to be feeling no

To save the world takes one cold son of a bitch.

No point in imagining anything," said Granny. "Things are bad enough as they are.

night." "Just some sore muscles. That's all." She shrugged

Everything used to get under my skin, and now I'll just be like, 'That's life.' I'm so much more unbothered.

She's going to keep up her public facade of stoicism and generosity and getting on with thungs. She knows she can do it, she can do the stiff upper lip thing. I will survive. But behind closed doors the going is rough. It's when she is alone that it hits her. And she is often alone, too often, she things no one should have to be alone as much as she is. It should have been me: her mind is a morass of old songs now, Errol Brown started it. It should have been me.

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.