Quotes About Seriousness

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Can you be serious for two words?""Not without effort.

I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.