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Quotes About Stoic

I'm a Clint Eastwood man.
~ Mickey Rivers
I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.
~ Colson Whitehead
I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
~ Rajiv Ouseph
Criticism doesn't affect me much now.
~ Tucker Halpern
I don't cry easily.
~ John Grant
I think I'm incredibly stoic. If I have a bad headache, it takes a while before I reach for a tablet.
~ Robert Rinder
I've always been in love with samurais, that kind of classic idea about a hero who has a sword with an intense skill and is very stoic and doesn't talk much.
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
I have never seen any. He's as good as anyone I ever saw at what he does. But he never seems happy or sad or frightened or elated. He never, in the twenty-some years I've known him, here and there, has shown any sign of love or compassion. He's never been nervous. He's never been mad.
~ Robert B. Parker
N-are rost sa te plangi de ceea ce este inevitabil.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Scottish men are . . . hardy?
~ Kresley Cole
I must die; so must I die groaning too?
~ Epictetus
No digo que no te esté permitido quejarte, sino que no te quejes por dentro
~ Epictetus
Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.
~ Epictetus
It didn't help that Norma had all the girlish charm of a boulder
~ Amy Stewart
I'm a stoic. When something goes down the pan, enjoy it. Make the best out of a bad job. I'm not the sort of person who would break down and weep if my trousers split. It is funny, and I don't really get embarrassed.
~ Vic Reeves
and it was said that the soldiers "all had the same expression because they had no expression at all.
~ Rick Atkinson
What cannot be cured must be endured.
~ Robert Burton
Freedom, for Hegel, has to do with identification—how one sees oneself (as citizen, as rebel, as stoic, as master, as slave), it is not the political question of societal restraints and duties.
~ Robert C. Solomon
Cato was always the perfect Stoic, as long as nothing went wrong.
~ Robert Harris
These? Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled. He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.
~ Robert Jordan
I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic
~ Billy Corgan
Sighing, he settled into his chair, watching the vision of space at his front. It was stoic, calm, and never ending—deadly, if you weren't careful.
~ Kiersten Fay, Demon Possession
Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the opposite: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as mushy.
~ Alain de Botton
The Hermit of the Commonwealth. That had a solid ring to it. Stoic and aesthetic. There was only one problem with the noble life he had set out for himself. It was a terrible way to meet girls. Whoever
~ Alan Dean Foster