It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In love. In love with the stoic, the sullen, the eternally morose Varen Nethers? He would never allow it.” — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
"Fate permitting" is a standard Stoic phrase meant to remind ourselves that planning things is up to us, but the ultimate outcomes… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“I’ve always wanted to not give a fuck. While crying helplessly into my pillow for no good reason, I would often fantasize… — Allie Brosh Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Very frequently Black people and other people of color in this country are taught that they need to be stoic and keep… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm always playing someone grumpy or sad or grieving or downtrodden or stoic. As people get to know me within the industry,… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead,… — Elizabeth Samet Copy Share Image
“The Chair I’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chair look like a throne while you sat on it. Amidst… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I think of Britain, I don't think of these lofty ideals which once held sway like the stoic upper lip. I… — Kele Okereke Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“ "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an… — W. Lucas Collins Copy Share Image
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The image of the Zen philosopher is the monk up in the green, quiet hills, or in a beautiful temple on some… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I'm a stoic. When something goes down the pan, enjoy it. Make the best out of a bad job. I'm not the… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Yeah, and so Max and Dylan are supposed to, like, go to Germany and have kids together," I heard Gazzy say. My… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Die - you will have to die. But die gracefully. I am not saying die like a stoic, I am not saying… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My whole time on the main roster was me being a stoic bodyguard, and I was still pretty stoic during the Intercontinental… — Big E Copy Share Image
“The Hermit of the Commonwealth. That had a solid ring to it. Stoic and aesthetic. There was only one problem with the… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“I no longer thought of myself in the terms that D. H. Lawrence used to observe on our national character: “The essential… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation,… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
