Quotes About Stoic

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

It's getting old"—he said—"your stoic-Britons-confront-the-impatient-American thing.

Truly tough guys never say they're tough.

She is not happy, nor is she unhappy; she takes pleasure in her endurance.

Colt had never shown fear, never issued a complaint about pain, remained always the definition of stoic. This wasn't merely a scream of pain

Colt had never shown fear, never issued a complaint about pain, remained always the definition of stoic. This wasn't merely a scream of pain, but also of pure terror, and carried on it were words: "He's biting, he's biting!

I'm not emotional.

I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

we got beat to shit tonite. beat to shit. i know tosh is hurt worse than shes letting on, and james must be banged up a treat. owen too, but hes playing it all macho.

Instead he stood erect, the snow insinuating itself down his collar and up his sleeves, plastering against his face and into his unblinking eyes.

Three craggy pine trees had stood at the far end of the green for as long as anyone remembered, like wise men who'd found what they were looking for.

The problem with political correctness is that comedians have to set the bar according to what we are told by the most touchy, most emotionally unstable and fragile and least stoic people in the country.

tightly drawn into a mask of endurance.

You have there the myth of the essential white America. All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

We are a stoic, reserved bunch who hide our emotions well - except when reading a terribly sad or poignant story, of course. I have been known to sob aloud at a tragic ending.

I tend not to get too emotional about things.

The right honourable gentleman is reminiscent of a poker. The only difference is that a poker gives off the occasional signs of warmth.

He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject.

I came to understand later that the requirement to extirpate anger in the Buddhist and Stoic cases has to do with the primacy of ethics in both philosophies. The aim of ethics is to do good, to reduce pain and suffering (dukkha), and, if possible, to bring happiness in its stead. Anger, at least in one standard mode, aims to hurt, to do harm, to inflict suffering. And one should never aim to do that.

Buster never cracks a smile. Ever. No matter what. That's what really makes it funny.

Devon wore the face of a stone Artemis.

Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.