Quotes About Stoic

The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching. Thus is born a multitude of contradictions. Now he appears an Epicurean, now a Stoic, now a sceptic.

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

Be stoic when necessary and write-you have seen a lot, felt deeply, and your problems are universal enough to be made meaningful-WRITE.

must work for a state in myself which is stoic: the old state of working & waiting. I have had the most unfortunate hap: the bright glittery youth from 17 to 20 and then the break-up and the dead lull while I fight to make the experiences of my early maturity available to my typewriter.

Oh, do shut up, boy. It's not like I've ever been one for goodbyes.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Maybe it's because I'm jaded, but not a lot scares me.

Trash talking doesn't work on me.

I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

I'm not always a smiley kind of guy.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

and had a face like a bulldog licking vinegar off a thistle...

I'm just kind of a hard-nosed, don't say a lot and go to work kind of guy.

I could see the rage of insatiable uninvited lust in every line of that dark, stoic face that had once been too subtly etched for me to read.I wasn't the only one lying awake at night, fevered with memories, tossing, turning, soaking my sheets, burning up--not for Fae sex, but him, damn it all to hell, him.

This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, A Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

His face showed neither pleasure nor excitement.

Social errors made no impression on Bond

Stoics like Marcus had long recommended such a practice—to concentrate entirely and exclusively on the present moment, and if that moment contained no physical suffering, then to be content.

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

Celia said nothing. She might have been carved out of stone.

Unlike many later atomists, and unlike his Stoic rivals, Epicurus rejected determinism not only in the physical realm but also in the realm of human agency.

could detect no change in the boy's expression.

Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep.

The man had all the warmth, all the friendliness, of a pinecone.