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Quotes About Seriousness

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
~ Michel de Montaigne
You can't look dignified when you're having fun.
~ Aaron Allston, Solo Command
Leven moet geleefd worden. Je moet er ernst van maken anders ben je een plas die verdampt.
~ Jan Wolkers
3. Adult children of alcoholics lie when it would be just as easy to tell the truth. 4. Adult children of alcoholics judge themselves without mercy. 5. Adult children of alcoholics have difficulty having fun. 6. Adult children of alcoholics take themselves very seriously. 7. Adult children of alcoholics have difficulty with intimate relationships. 8. Adult children of alcoholics over-react to changes over which they have no control.
~ Janet Geringer Woititz
La gente adopta una fe y se pone muy seria, después solemne. Empieza a creerse cuanto viene amparado o envuelto por esa fe, y entonces se vuelve estúpida.
~ Javier Marías
acontecido es por eso mucho menos grave siempre que los temores y las hipótesis, las
~ Javier Marías
Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
~ Eckhart Tolle
And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
~ Eckhart Tolle
And what difference does it make, anyway, what you like and what you don't like? You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Suicide wore the mask of self-rejection; but in reality nobody took their personality more seriously than the person who was planning to kill himself on its instructions. Nobody was more determined to stay in charge at any cost, to force the most mysterious aspect of life into their own imperious schedule.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
~ Albert Brooks
One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.
~ Aleister Crowley
Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air,Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair.
~ Alexander Pope
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
One must not trifle with love.
~ Alfred de Musset
'Perfect Sense' is an extremely serious film, and I am an extremely serious film-maker who is trying to explore the medium in original and interesting ways.
~ David MacKenzie
I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I like to have fun, but there are moments you need to show yourself, and that, for me, is on the pitch.
~ David Luiz
Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.
~ Richard P. Feynman
I think that after divorce, I took my life a little bit more seriously, because you have to face endings in a way that you maybe never - death in one thing, but an ending in your own chapter. It's so clearly placed there for you with divorce.
~ Alice Eve
I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
~ Ben Stiller
We like to party but to be the best partiers in the world you've gotta be serious, you've gotta plan that stuff out. You've gotta wake up the next day and catch that plane to the next show and perform a great show.
~ Redfoo