508 Quotes About Stoicism

Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.

A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.

It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.

Appreciating what you have is the best cure for wanting what you have not.

How does a person deal with all the heartache and tragedy that fills their life without becoming insane or committing suicide?

Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.