Quotes About Stoicism

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

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

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Do not expect good from another's death.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Sylvia Levov stoically and impatiently endured him, her only successful form of resistance being to freeze him out and live with the isolation—and see more of herself evaporating year by year.

You learn by sixty to accept in a sporting spirit the derision of virtuous bystanders.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

el placer y el dolor no se encuentran nunca a un mismo tiempo; y sin embargo, cuando se experimenta el uno, es preciso aceptar el otro, como

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect. Few know how to remain silent and respect the silence of others.

She is not happy, nor is she unhappy; she takes pleasure in her endurance.

The thing to understand is that you have to do what you have to do, always and without complaint. That's the way.

I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

SELF-CONTROL, which was universally required of samurai. The discipline of fortitude on the one hand, inculcating endurance without a groan, and the teaching of politeness on the other, requiring us not to mar the pleasure or serenity of another by manifestations of our own sorrow or pain, combined to engender a stoical turn of mind, and eventually to confirm it into a national trait of apparent stoicism.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering. ~ Ernest Hemingway

She does not get upset by anything. She takes things very calmly and she has been that way her whole life.