Quotes About Seriousness

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

I hate people who are not serious about meals.  It is so shallow of them.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously.  If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't.  Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. LADY

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

He felt that life was changeful, fluid, active, and that to allow it to be stereotyped into any form was death. He saw that people should not be too serious over material, common interests: that to be unpractical was to be a great thing: that one should not bother too much over affairs. The birds didn't, why should man?

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

it had been a winter of deadening seriousness, when all the illusions and bright dreams of my early twenties had withered and died. I did not yet have the interior resources to dream new dreams; I was far too busy mourning the death of the old ones and wondering how I was to survive without them. I was sure I could replace them somehow , but was not sure I could restore their brassy luster or dazzling impress .

When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, Is this necessary at this point in the book?

A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout.

One simply cannot concern oneself eight or even five hours a day with nonsense-taken-seriously and not be corrupted by it. The corruption lies in the very habits of thought.

Be assured, I do not suffer from a sense of humor.

I had set the Evening wholly apart to consider seriously about it, and was all alone; for already People had, as it were by a general Consent, taken up the Custom of not going out of Doors after Sun-set, the Reasons I shall have Occasion to say more of by-and-by.

I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.

Don't take things too seriously. I would never de-value the importance of your business; but it's not worth sacrificing your life for.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

There is nothing serious in mortality!

When a sensible woman has a serious question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.

Qué nadie se ría de la única anécdota que he narrado aquí. En buena hora podrán ustedes reírse de cuanta cosa haya escrito yo en estas páginas. Pero no cuando se trata de Robinson Crusoe. ¡Por dios! Porque es este un asunto serio para mí..., y les ruego que lo tomen ustedes de la misma manera, por lo tanto.

If you can bring nothing to this place but your carcass, keep out. (Dedication for a Plot of Ground)

Apocalyptic literature was created to speak in a powerful way and with a dramatic seriousness that would match the sense of hopelessness and terror that can easily grip a generation in the midst of a profound crisis.