Stoicism Quote by Lynn Austin

“But I stopped crying when I noticed that very few people were being openly emotional. I’d never seen that many stoic people at a…

— Sherman Alexie

“I saw everyone, a shifting sea of discomfort and sadness, each person carrying his own pain, each telling her own stories, no story more…

— Jennifer Brown

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it…

— Anne McCaffrey

“Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.”

— James Morrow

“There is nothing worse than a proud stoic. -- The Big Why”

— Michael Winter

“Isn’t it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?”

— Priscille Sibley

“Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Be stoic when necessary and write-you have seen a lot, felt deeply, and your problems are universal enough to be made meaningful-WRITE.”

— Sylvia Plath

“So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and bigotry, too…

— Mary Stewart

“Tragic phrases comfort the heart… Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky