Quotes About Seriousness

A certain kind of seriousness in a girl could cancel out looks

Su voz daba a entender que era posible hacer cualquier cosa, cualquiera, y quitarle importancia diciendo que era una broma, una broma a costa de toda la gente solemne y culpable, toda la gente moral y emotiva del mundo, la gente que «se tomaba a sí misma en serio». Eso era lo que él no podía soportar de los demás.

The older we become, the more serious we become about life. An adult laughs an average of fifteen times a day a preschooler laughs an average of four hundred times.

I'll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless; the English that life is hopeless but not serious.

Cairm Ironhead was a very different prospect. His scar-crossed face was a fortress of frown you could've blunted an axe on, eyes like nails under a brow like an anvil, cropped hair and beard an uncompromising black.

You must be joking.' 'I save my jokes for those with a sense of humour.

When life wants to get our attention it doesn't bother with half measures.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

Aki tökéletesen okos és komoly, az képtelen élni. Minél jobban eltávolodik tÅ'lem, Balgaságtól valaki, annál kevésbé él. Ugyan miért, mi okból csókolgatjuk, ölelgetjük a kisgyermekeket, ha nem azért, mert olyan csodálatosan balgák még. S mi más teszi az ifjúságot oly vonzóvá?

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises; and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

I have this attitude to life that is not to take anything too seriously and not worry about anything, and when I met him I wasn't too nervous and I was being myself.

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

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.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

No one's really taking it seriously enough, being more kind of careful and cautious in planning your life out and trying to reach a goal. It takes a great deal of effort - and this cannot be taught.

Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.