Quotes About Seriousness

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

He was through playing games. When it came to Soteria, he had no sense of humor whatsoever. Anyone who threatened her, ended their life. It was that simple.

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

The most popular answer to this question among those who take the phenomenon seriously is that the aliens do not dare to manifest themselves more directly. Government leaders would panic, might attack them, and surely would not know how to avoid scaring the rest of us.

Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat." It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.

He was a lively, likeable boy with a serious and almost morbid side to his nature.

But a generation that does not aspire to seriousness, to meaning, is unworthy to walk in the shadow of those who have gone before, I mean those who have struggled and surmounted, I mean those who have aspired, I mean Rembrandt, I mean Turner, I mean Michelangelo and Matisse … I mean obviously Rothko.

I wanted to know how it was going to turn out, like flipping ahead in a book. I didn't even know what kind of story it was, or what kind of role I was supposed to be playing. Which of us was taking it more seriously? Didn't that have to be me, because I was younger, and also because I was the girl? One the other hand, I thought that there was a way in which I was lighter than he was - that there was a serious heaviness about him that was foreign to me, and that I rejected.

Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're going to die, too. This is serious. Fuck fuck fuck.

He led her downstairs without releasing her, and that he left the front door unguarded reinforced Muire's deductions about how seriously Cathoair's friends took his disappearance.

Once they get you to laugh the fight is over, because no matter how mad you are, nobody takes you seriously when you're trying to dress them down while giggling.

his gaze. 'But then my responsibilities would be much greater

I don't fly to the classics for comfort, as Giles does. I'm too frivolous. Worthy people always read the classics when things are difficult.

I took myself—secretly, secretly—very seriously! I knew I was a writer. I didn't know how hard it would be. But no one knows that; and that does not matter.)