Stoical Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose…
— Philip French
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate…
— Quentin Crisp
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Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the…
— H E Bates
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The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and…
— Knute Nelson
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What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
— Louise Erdrich
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I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression,…
— David Thewlis
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If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take…
— Frederick Lenz
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
— Jonathan Swift
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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…
— Koren Zailckas
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Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most…
— Thomas Hardy
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Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh…
— Martin Amis
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Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the…
— Victor Hugo
Who Wrote These Stoical Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Stoical Quotes as follows: