Quotes About Stoicism

No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism, just as by living in a continual rush they produced in their own minds an illusion of activity.

For the anvil never cries for the iron.

Hey, people get killed from time to time, that's just the way of the world, let's not bust a budget about it . . .

You're jest a-teasin' yourself up to cry. I don' know what's come at you. Our folks ain't never did that. They took what come to 'em dry-eyed.

I wondered why it is that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death than others.

Lee watched him for a while before he went back to his kitchen. He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation.

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

You can't be disturbed by anything. There's no emotion involved. You can't feel sorrow, you can't feel pity, there's nothing you feel. The job has to be done.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Life is easier if you dread only one day at a time.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.