Quotes About Seriousness

We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been one possible resistance: to not take it seriously. But I think our jokes have lost their power...All you get out of it is weariness and boredom.

To take seriously something so unserious means to lose all one's own seriousness

El placer de la mistificación debía protegeros. Ésa fue de hecho nuestra estrategia, la de todos nosotros. Comprendimos desde hace mucho que ya no era posible subvertir el mundo, ni remodelarlo, ni detener su pobre huida hacia delante. Sólo había una resistencia posible: no tomarlo en serio.

Y es que las preguntas verdaderamente serias son aquellas que pueden ser formuladas hasta por un niño. Sólo las preguntas más ingenuas son verdaderamente serias. Son preguntas que no tienen respuesta. Una pregunta que no tiene respuesta es un barrera que no puede atravesarse. Dicho de otro modo: precisamente las preguntas que no tienen respuesta son las que determinan las posibilidades del ser humano, son las que trazan las fronteras de la existencia del hombre.

She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

Con las metáforas no se juega. El amor puede surgir de una sola metáfora.

Asl?nda, gerçekten ciddi olan sorular bir çocuÄŸun bile dile getirebileceÄŸi sorulard?r.Yaln?zca en çocuksu sorular gerçekten ciddi olan sorulard?r.Cevaplar? olmayan sorulard?r bunlar.Cevab? olmayan soru a??lamayacak bir engeldir.BaÅŸka bir deyiÅŸle insani olas?l?klar?n s?n?rlar?n? belirleyen ,insan varoluÅŸunun s?n?rlar?n? saptayan cevab? olmayan sorulard?r.

Y así es como funciona el mundo que nos rodea. Si insistiese en decirle la verdad a la cara, eso significaría que me lo tomo en serio. Y tomarse en serio algo tan poco serio significa perder la seriedad. Yo, hermano, tengo que mentir si no quiero tomarme en serio a los locos y convertirme yo mismo en uno de los locos.

Onun tümüyle kendisinin olmas?n?, kendisini bütün varl???yla ona vermeyi istiyordu, ama ona her ÅŸeyi vermeye ne kadar çok çabalarsa, pek derin olmayan, yüzeysel bir aÅŸk?n ya da flört etmenin gerektirdiÄŸi ÅŸeyleri genç adamdan esirgediÄŸi duygusuna da o kadar çok kap?l?yordu.Kendisini ciddiliÄŸi hafiflikle birleÅŸtirememekle k?n?yordu.

Y es que las preguntas verdaderamente serias son aquéllas que pueden ser formuladas hasta por un niño. Solo las preguntas más ingenuas son verdaderamente serias.

Las preguntas verdaderamente serias son aquéllas que pueden ser formuladas hasta por un niño. Sólo las preguntas más ingenuas son verdaderamente serias. Son preguntas que no tienen respuesta. Una pregunta que no tiene respuesta es una barrera que no puede atravesarse. Dicho de otro modo: precisamente las preguntas que no tienen respuesta son las que determinan las posibilidades del ser humano, son las que trazan las fronteras de la existencia del hombre.

La pesanteur, la nécessité et la valeur sont trois notions intrinsèquement liées : n'est grave que ce qui est nécessaire, n'a de valeur que ce qui pèse.

Tomarse en serio algo tan poco serio significa perder la seriedad.

It has something malicious about it (things suddenly turning out different from what they pretended to be), but to some extent also a beneficent relief (things are less weighty than they appeared to be, letting us live more freely, no longer oppressing us with their austere seriousness).

I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners—particularly when it's a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then, I'm biased.

Tell him what I think, if you can guess it, if you will. Nay, I am not jesting. This is no jest, but life and death

I do know this about pride: pride is tiring, a cruel task-master, a complicator, a destroyer. Humility, in contrast, relaxes, refreshes, relieves, simplifies, renews. To the degree that becoming childlike includes becoming humble, humility releases childlike play, laughter, sleep, smiles, fun. Our pride forces us to take ourselves so seriously, which leads us to take others less seriously and God less seriously still.

Its important to understand that a legalist isn't just someone with higher standards or more rules than you. A lot of us wrongly stereotype a legalistic person as one who doesn't go to the movies, or who thinks that any music with a beat is evil. Legalism is much more subtle and serious than that. Here's a simple definition that I use: Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from God and acceptance by God through obedience to God.

Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.

Laughter can get through the keyhole while seriousness is still hammering on the door.

Joking about violence is not funny.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.