Quotes About Stoic

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

I must be cool and breezy and nonchalant now. Tears would ruin that.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

In Martin Luther's life and behavior is very courteous and friendly, and there is nothing of the stern stoic or grumpy fellow about him. He can adjust to all occasions. In social gathering he is gay, witty, ever full of joy, always has a bright and happy face, no matter how seriously his adversaries threatening him. One can see that God's strength is within him. – Petrus Mosellanus

He was calm and cold. And killed calmly and coldly.

Traditional westerns typify some of the hardships men face: you have to be rugged, silent, stoic. It's a man against nature, against the world.

It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.

Be nice and silent as a boulder amidst breakers.

He is so solemn, detached, and uninvolved he makes Mr. Spock look like Hunter S. Thompson at closing time.

He was solemn and businesslike and always master of his emotions.

Pierpont was, by nature, a laconic man.

with a man. Three children walking stolidly

His face was a chipped chunk of concrete, with eyes of flawed onyx. His mouth was a quick stroke, bloodless. His suit coat fluttered behind him, and his arms swung easy as he walked.

El Ojo seguía siendo una persona rara y sin embargo asequible, alguien que no imponía su presencia, alguien al que le podías decir adiós en cualquier momento de la noche y él solo te diría adiós, sin un reproche, sin un insulto, una especie de chileno ideal, estoico y mable, un ejemplar que nunca había abandonado mucho en Chile pero que solo allí se podía encontrar.

supreme test of all he would endure, without complaint

His tightly compressed lips expressed a fierce determination and a guarded nature.

Lee's face was a Spock-on-the-bridge-of-the-Enterprise blank.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

She had no human side. For the next few minutes, she said nothing, sitting at my table like some sort of malevolent Buddha, unmoving and imperious, letting me sweat it out as I wondered what was going to happen next.

I get really quiet when I'm nervous. I don't freak out.

the word 'stoical' has entered the languages of today to describe patient endurance in the face of suffering.

It's kind of a stoic life, to survive strictly on your obsessions. It's also kind of religious, sometimes. You could say that it's a kind of postmodernist view—to survive a meaningless life strictly on your tastes in things, your styles.