Quotes About Seriousness

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

Ho esagerato ancora prima di cominciare, perché è vero: niente è mai grave quanto potrebbe essere.

What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I'm essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous—not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slapstick comedy, but rather in the sense of a ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and most ordinary gestures. For example, I can never shave without starting to laugh; it seems so idiotic.

The difficulty in life is to take the same thing seriously for long at a time.

Le difficile dans la vie, c'est de prendre au sérieux longtemps de suite la même chose.

Dice sul serio?" "Sul lavoro non scherzo mai", replica duro il delegato. E nemmeno fuori dal lavoro, se è per questo.

The point of what Einstein had done did not lie in this or that experiment. It lay, as Alan saw, in the ability to doubt, to take ideas seriously, and to follow them to a logical if upsetting conclusion.

But it is a rule of life, alas, that nobody is kidding.

Problemele lor sunt cu adev?rat grave ?i, chiar dac? nu pricepem de ce, trebuie s? accept?m gravitatea acestei chestiuni.

I like a man who takes his violence seriously.

If you want to be taken seriously, be serious. Take yourself seriously.

You flatter yourself...you're too young for me to take you seriously.

He said, will you marry me! And I laughed. I remember thinking, this is a joke, and I said, yeah ok! And laughed! He was deadly serious, he said, you do realize that one day you will be queen! And a voice said to me inside, you won't be queen, but you will have a touch role! -Diana

He said, will you marry me! And I laughed. I remember thinking, this is a joke, and I said, yeah ok! And laughed! He was deadly serious, he said, you do realize that one day you will be queen! And a voice said to me inside, you won't be queen, but you will have a tough role! -Diana

If you were dead, Owen told her, you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

Jer kad ?emo mi civilizirana bi?a postati ozbiljni? upitao je Kierkegaard. Tek pošto dokraja i temeljito upoznamo pakao. Bez toga ?e hedonizam i lakomislenost proširiti pakao na sve naše dane.

If I were serious I would never have become a wizard, would I?

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

In general it's a good idea to avoid people who take themselves too seriously. As individuals, we have only so much seriousness to go round, and people who take themselves very seriously don't have enough seriousness left over to take other people seriously. Instead they tend to look down on them, and are secretly pleased when they get stuff wrong, because they just prove to the too-serious types that they were right not to take them too seriously to begin with.

The Ukrainians voted for a comedian and got a leader. A man with an unerring moral compass. We in the UK also voted for a comedian and got exactly that. Except his act had long since stopped being funny. It never occurred to us that the world was going to get this serious. First Covid. Then this.

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?