“I love your stoic nature and your beautiful cock and the way you are honest with me.” — James Cox Copy Share Image
Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand. — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
I can be very stoic looking, that's just my facial expression. I don't smile a lot. — Robert Parish Copy Share Image
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a bit sassy, with some sarcasm thrown into the mix, but stoic at the same time - and brash. — Mike Daniels Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.” — R.C. Sproul 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
“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
“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
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
“In love. In love with the stoic, the sullen, the eternally morose Varen Nethers? He would never allow it.” — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled."… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the… — William James Copy Share Image
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it;… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of a stoic life, to survive strictly on your obsessions. It’s also kind of religious, sometimes. You could say that… — Roland Kelts 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
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
“ "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
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
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 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
“Quietism, Buddhism, and other religions, everything which denies the flesh—is the great inferiority to God in ourselves, an escapism seeking sanctuary through… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Know then thyself; presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
