Expressing Quote by Ted Morgan

“Words failed him again; he began to stammer in his unsuccessful attempt to express the first vague stirrings of the future he could feel…

— Émile Zola

“He was burdened, poor Strether—it had better be confessed at the outset—with the oddity of a double consciousness. There was detachment in his zeal…

— Henry James

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

— Ryan Holiday

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy…

— Terry Pratchett

Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We…

— Humphrey Bogart

“Despite himself he scoffed—a staccato bark of saliva—at the very notion of ladders.”

— Gordon Dahlquist

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

— Anonymous

He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our…

— Bret Easton Ellis

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he…

— Maya Angelou

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

— Michael Winter

Most people thought Gomer was stupid, dumb, a real klutz. But you study him, he really wasn't any of those things. Gomer just didn't…

— Jim Nabors