Quotes About Seriousness

Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

This isn't a slumber party.

Lo decía en serio. Esa promesa le quemaba el corazón

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

A Deep Sense of Humor Let me have too deep a sense of humor ever to be proud. Let me know my absurdity before I act absurdly. Let me realize that when I am humble I am most human, most truthful, and most worthy of your serious consideration. —Daniel Lord, S.J. (1888–1955)

There ain't no time for foolishness now. You in it now. You got to stay in it.

A finite player is trained not only to anticipate every future possibility, but to control the future, to prevent it from altering the past. This is the finite player in the mode of seriousness with its dread of unpredictable consequence.

What confounds a society is not serious opposition, but the lack of seriousness altogether. Generals can more easily suffer attempts to oppose their warfare with poiesis than attempts to show warfare as poiesis.

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as though nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful with each other we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise; everything that happens is of consequence. It is, in fact, seriousness that closes itself to consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility.

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as though nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful with each other we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise: *everything* that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself.

Art that is used against a society or its policies gives up its character as infinite play, and aims for an end. Such art is no less propaganda than that which praises its heroes with high seriousness.

For reliable information, apply to a lawyer, a barber or prostitute. My informant hasn't found out so far who paid the captain.' 'But she will,' said Margaret, her face grave. 'I hope so,' he said with equal gravity

He takes everything seriously. That is what makes him so difficult to live with.

I should hope so. But, my dear, I do beg of you to guard your tongue and be careful of what you say. These women are singularly deficient in humour, remember, and take everything seriously.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

The Channel is a slipper-bath of irony through which we pass these serious Continentals in order not to be infected by their gloom.

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.

It's hard sometimes because people don't take a model seriously in any sense. Unless she's taking a photo, that's as good as she is.

Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.

Everyone has seen the serious side of myself and sometimes I need to take a chill pill and have a good laugh. That's who I am as a person.