1. stoic - Noun
2. stoic - Adjective
3. stoic - Adjective Satellite
A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
Alt. of Stoical
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints. William James
My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A stoic of the woods-a man without a tear. Thomas Campbell
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by sceptics. Bertrand Russell
From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr. Arthur Wing Pinero
Victor: Get Stoic. Sherman Alexie