Quotes About Seriousness

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breath-takingly serious!

Life is real. life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

I am deep. therefore you can't wade in the kiddie pool and expect to find me." - Alfa"And I've never wanted to drown until now." - JmStorm

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.