Quotes About Seriousness

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

I went through a lot of changes and a period of depression. I'd reached an age when I had to grow up and start taking life a bit more seriously, which had a huge impact on me. I suffered terrible anxiety, and sometimes, in the middle of a game, my legs would start shaking uncontrollably. It was pretty scary.

While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

Everything that begins as comedy ends as a dirge in the void.

Once I asked him what kind of women he liked. It was a stupid question, asked by an adolescent looking for something to say. But the Grub took it seriously and considered his reply for a long time. Finally he said, Calm women. And then he added, But only the dead are really calm. And after a while, Not even the dead, come to think of it.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

A few of the other Traders who dispute that the dragons are anything but animals said that she was taking the matter too seriously, that creatures that can only communicate with some people rather than everyone should not be treated as if they are equal to humans. And then, of course, the arguments degenerated. Some demanded to know if that meant speakers of foreign languages were not full humans. Someone else quipped that surely.

Regan Pescoli, will you marry me?" "I can't wait," she whispered, her heart soaring as the weight of the decision lifted, all of her doubts scattering to the four winds. "And, let me tell you this, Santana. I'm serious about this, okay? This time it's forever. So don't even think about backing out of the marriage. Otherwise I might just have to shoot you.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

He laughed a little, but the laughter was not lighthearted. His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.

He's not so short," said Ekaterin defensively. "He's just . . . concentrated." Her

Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

Life was a serious business to me when I was young.

Take anything and everything seriously, except yourselves.

That God lets himself be born and becomes a human being, is no idle whim, something that occurs to him so as to have something to do, perhaps to put a stop to the boredom that has brashly been said to be bound up with being God-it is not to have an adventure. No, the fact that God does this is the seriousness of existence. And the seriousness in this seriousness is, in turn, that each shall have an opinion about it.

They make Christ a speculative unity of God and man; or they throw Christ away altogether and take His teaching; or for sheer seriousness they make Christ a false god. Spirit is the negation of direct immediacy. If Christ is very God, He must also be unrecognizable, He must assume recognizableness, which is the negation of all directness. Direct recognizableness is precisely the characteristic of the pagan god.

The Attack is a funny book which the reader has the option of taking seriously. For when the laughter subsides we realize that SK has set before us a stark either-or proposition: either follow the gospel according to Christ and the apostles, or follow the gospel according to the clergy. There can be no dialectical synthesis between these contraries.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.