Quotes about Stoicism

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

But why must all the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.